A survey of the Phytogeography of the Arctic American Archipelago 
were also brought home from the western coast, whicb was explored and mapped 
by members of the expedition. Moreover I bad occasion to make a few excursions 
on the northeru shore of North Devon and to bring home the first small collection 
from the smaller island of North Kent. My friend, the late Mr. Schei, brought 
some plants from Graham and Buckingham Islands and from Heiberg Island, one of 
the new discoveries of the expedition, and Captain IsACHt^EN from another, Ringnes 
Land. A few plants collected in Ellesmereland by the american geologist Dr. 
Stein are also inserted in my flora. 
In låter years the Canadian Government bas sent out several expeditions, 
especially to the Hudson Bay region, some however also touching the area here in 
question and contributing to its exploration. Among these I may mention Wakeham'8 
expedition in the »Diana» in 1897, when Dr. R. Bell explored the interiör of 
Baffin Land, and A. P. Low'8 in the »Neptune» 1903—04, when different parts of 
the eastern Islands were visited. Dr. L. E. Borden during the cruise collected 
plants in so widely separated locahties as Cape Sabine on Bedford Pim Island at 
the Ellesmereland side of Smith Sound, Cuming Creek and Beechey Island on the 
south coast of North Devon, Ponds Bay in Baffin Land, and Wakeham Bay on the 
north coast of Labrador. A valuable revised geological map is annexed to the 
report. The plants from the different localities are named by Macoun and enu- 
merated in an appendix. 
With this I think I can finish the historical sketch of the exploration of the 
Arctic American Archipelago. If I have entered some details, not directly bearing 
upon the botany of that regio!), still I think they may be found useful for the 
study of its phytogeography. I have often myself, in working with such subjects, 
sorely missed a rehable short survey of Arctic American exploration, and therefore 
I have thought myself justified in giving the historical review such an extent as it 
bas got here. Generally I have had to pass rather superficially over the different 
books and papers dealing with the separate expeditions, the use I have made of 
them will, however, appear from the foUowing special part of this paper, and at 
the end I shall have to give a bibhography inchiding tlie titles of all works of any 
importance about the Arctic Islands, especially, of eourse all such as contain ■- as 
far as I have been able to ascertain — any botanical information. There are, 
however, besides the works dealing with any part of the area separately, also some 
other books and papers which I have used with more or less profit for the compila- 
tion of the present paper, and which I must mention liere. Firstly there is »Die 
Literatur tiber die Polar-Regionen der Erde» by Chavanne, Karpf, and Le Monnier. 
It contains more than 6,000 titles of works on arctic subjects and seems to be 
rather complete up to the date of its publication, 1878. As far as I have found 
it is also in general reliable, and the mistakes seem not to be more than is inevi- 
table in such a compilation. Among those I have found out, I may mention especi- 
ally N:o 1098 »HoocKER W. J. Distribution of Arctic plants. London 1824, 4**.» 
I have been unable to find any reference to such a work anywhere else, and sliould 
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