in that bay some collections and observations were, bowever, made. The flovvering 
plants are determined by Asa Gray. 
A few years låter Cumberland Gulf was again visited. It was when tbe inter- 
national circumpolar stations for ineteorological observation were established, viz., in 
1882 — 83. »Kingua Fjord» (»Kingua» is the eskimo word for tbe innermost part 
of a fjord) was chosen for the German arctic station under Dr. W. Giese. As far 
as time would allow, the members of the expedition also made botanical and other 
collections, and the former are treated by Ambronn, togetlier with some plants 
collected by Dr. F. Boas, who visited Baffin Land in 1883—84 mainly for etno- 
graphical studies. 
Another station was situated in Lady Franklin Bay, established by the United 
States and commanded by A. W. Greelt, who commenced bis work one year 
earlier than the other stations' and carried it out on a larger scale, including as 
well geographical exploration as scientific research. The resnlt of the energetic 
work executed by Greely himself, Lieutenani Lockwood, and other members of 
the expedition, was not only the mapping of some new stretches of coastline, biit 
also a very interestiiig and valuable exploration of the interiör of the northern part 
of Ellesmereland. It is only to be regretted that, owing to the disastrous retreat of 
the expedition, tbe main part of the collection bad to be left behind and bas never 
been brought home in gpite of the repeated visits Peary bas låter paid to the 
station. 
During all bis different voyages Peary evidently bas been so entirely absorbed 
in the effort for reaching so far north as possible, that he bas hardly bad any 
time left for geographical work of other kind — even if he bas mapped some 
parts of the Greenland and Ellesmereland nortlicoasts — and when any collections 
or observations have been brought home from bis expeditions they have been dne 
to the interest of other members. For the most important among these we are 
indebted to Mr. H. G. Bryant, leader of the auxiliary expedition in 1894. A consi- 
derable collection of plants was then made by Dr. Wetherill. In 1896 Professor 
Tarr, as leader of the Cornell university party in Peary's expedition, with tbe aid 
of bis assistants collected some plants in Baffin Land, a hst of wich is published 
by W. W. Rowlee and K. M. Wiegand. Låter collections are made by Messrs. 
Schuchert and White in Baffin Land, 1897, and published by Theo. Holm 1900, as 
well as by L. J. Wolf and J. W. Goodsell in Ellesmereland, 1905—1909, pubhshed 
by P- A. Rydberg 1911 — 12, and finally by Gaptain Bartlett in the same region 
in 1908. The latter are not published, but I have seen some of them in the her- 
barium of the Copenhagen university. 
These new collections from Ellesmereland do not, bowever, even if they 
extend the northward range of some species, contain any new ones above what the 
present writer found during the four years I spent in Ellesmereland as botanist 
of the Sverdrup expedition, My own collections are mostly — as menlioned in 
ray Flora Ellesm. — made on the eastern and southern coasts, but some plants 
