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Wallace, Dr. J., An Account of the Islands of Orkney by James Wallace, M.D., 

 F.R.S. : LoDdon, 1700. (This writer is the son of the Rev. J. Wallace. The 

 work is his father's with additions, but without acknowledgment. In 1883 

 there was published at Edinburgh a reprint of the 1693 edition, edited by J. Small, 

 which included the materials added by the son in that of 1700.) 



Waltershattsen, Sartoritjs von, Physisch-geographische Skizze von Island, 1847. 



Warming, E., and colleagues, Botany of the Faeroe3 : Copenhagen, 1901-8. 



Worm, O., a Danish naturalist of the seventeenth century whose "Epistolfe" are 

 quoted by Gumprecht (p. 420) in connection with Scandinavian tropical seed- 

 drift. 



Note 1. — Gumprecht (pp. 421, 428-30) gives references in connection with drift- 

 wood stranded in high latitudes in the North Atlantic to Petherick, Olafsen, Povel- 

 sen, Crantz, von Lowenorn, de Pauw, Rennell, Irminger, Robert, Barrow, etc. 



Note 2. — Though the " Exoticorum Libri " of Clusius are mentioned by old and 

 modern botanists in association with West Indian drift seeds, he merely described 

 and figured certain unknown fruits and seeds that had been given to him and sup- 

 plies no information about them. However, Gumprecht (p. 418) states that they 

 were also described and figured " in seinen Anmerkungen zu des spanischen Botanikers 

 Nicolas Monarde Bericht (Exotica, c. 49, p. 335) uber die Pflanzen Westindiens." 

 He says the same (ibid.) of a botanical work of Tabernsemontanus, but gives no 

 reference. 



Note 3. — Whilst this work was going through the press I have been able, through 

 the kindness of Miss U. Warren, to inspect two seeds, evidently sound, of Entada 

 scandens, which were found near Padstow on the north coast of Cornwall. 



