not result from the expedition, and the botanical harvest seems to have been very 
small, as it bas never been separately treated and as tbere are very few specimens 
from this voyage in the London collections. Certaiiily it is in consequence of the 
failure o'f tbe expedition that Ross bas never pubiisbed anytbing about it, tbe only 
source to its history now being a sbort narrative in a Blue Book from 1850. Tbe 
transport sbip »Nortbstar» under tbe command of Saunders wbich left England in 
1849 was able first in the following ycar to reaeh Barrow Strait. Tbe very few 
plants, brought böme hy its officers, are collected entirely at Wolstenbolme Sound 
in Greenland, not at tbe places visited on the anierican side. 
In the spring of 1850 tbe searcb was taken up again in a far larger scale; 
not less tban five different expeditions under conmiand of Austin, Penny, John 
Ross, BE Haven, and Forsyth, witb ten vessels, entered Lancaster Sound in that 
summer. As the main object of these expeditions was, of course, to make every 
possible effort to find tbe missing explorcrs, and as even geograpbical discoveries 
were allowed only if tbey were to be made in a direction, wbere tbere was any 
probability for gaining any information about Franki.in and bis followers, the 
results to be expected in otber fields of exploration must naturally be ratber small. 
Long stretcbes of new coastline were, bowever, laid down by tbe many different 
sledgejourneys in tbe spring of 1851, and also in otber respects considerable addi- 
tions to tbe knowdedge about the Islands of tbe Parry group were procured, but 
tbe only officer wbo made any more cxtensive eollections of plants or botanical 
notes was Dr. Sutherland, surgeon of Penny'8 expedition. A Httle, bowever, is 
due also to M'Clintock, Dr. King and otbers as will be shown in tbe following. 
Some of tbe sbips returned in tbe same year, tlie otbers in 1851, wben Lady 
Franklin again sent out a i)rivate ex})edition under tbe command of Kennedy, 
wiio discovered Beliot Strait and tluis found the nortliernmost point of tlie American 
Oontinent. 
In 1852 the searcb was taken uj) again by several expeditions. One of tbese, 
under tbe command of Inglefield, and witb Sutheri.and as surgeon, bas procured 
some botanical information, not. bowever, frön» the Arctic Arcbipelago, wbich was 
also visited, but from Greenland. The large Government expedition of this year 
was coimnanded by Belchek and consisted of five sbi{)s. Four of these passed 
westward from Lancaster Sound, but one, the »Northstar». was left at Beechey 
Irland at the southwestern extremity of North Devon. Some of the officers of this 
«hip have materiallv contributed to tbe botanical knowledge of tlie adjacent regions; 
i'=;peciallv I wiU mention Dr. M ( ormiok, wbo made a boatjournev u{) througb 
Wolbniiton Gbaimel along tbe shore (»1 N. Devon and also noted or collected plants 
m otber locahties. A verv dihucnt cfilhictoi- -oeni^ also Dr. David Lyall, surgeon 
ot the »Assi^^tame^ t<. Ki\< t, . n ,ii.d wn^Mi t],,!. ,m ni riK berbaria some 
)»lant< collected by M < i.in i h k and t»v Ti i.i.kn I (•uMnot. howevcr, make out wbo 
tbe l.ittei 1^ Coninumdu W f - 1'm i i n I C ['umfn makter of the »North- 
<lar In \>^:y.-> 1 n«;i,kmi:i.i> aiiaui inad*' a ^inumervoyage up to Lancaster Sound 
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