TEACHERS DEPARTMENT. 
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All told we spent seventy-eight days on the march and in 
camp, much of the time in territory never before seen by a botanist. 
Once for nearly three weeks we did not see a face except of our 
own members. We obtained a considerable mass of data concern¬ 
ing the vegetation, and brought back about twenty thousand sheets 
illustrating the flora of the region. 
THE TEACHERS DEPARTMENT. 
Edited by Professor C. Stuart Gager. 
On the Zonal Distribution of South Atlantic and Ant¬ 
arctic Vegetation.— The Geographical Journal for December, 
1904, contains an interesting article by C. Skottsberg under the 
above caption. This is a preliminary communication on the phyto- 
geographical results obtained on the Swedish Antarctic Expedi¬ 
tion. The old Flora antarctic a, including Tierra del Fuego, South 
Georgia, the Falkland Islands, Kerzuelen Land, the Aukland 
group, Graham Land and adjacent territory, is divided into two 
zones: (1) The Austral zone (Tierra del Fuego, Isla de los 
Estados, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the South Sand¬ 
wich Islands (probably)); (2) The Antarctic zone (South 
Orkney, South Shetland Islands, and Graham Land with its sur¬ 
rounding group of islands). 
The climate of the Austral zone permits the existence of forests 
and grass land, while a cold desert is the result of the climate 
of the Antarctic zone. In Tierra del Fuego the vegetation com¬ 
pletely corresponds to the climate. The forests are green in sum¬ 
mer and quite like those of Scandinavia in winter. There is no 
moss carpet, but the bushes in the woods here and farther south 
are evergreen. 
On the Falkland Islands there does not exist a wild tree, the 
ground being wholly occupied by a boggy grass land. The total 
rainfall is sufficient to make a deciduous forest, but is too evenly 
distributed throughout the twelve months. There is no ground 
covering of snow in winter and spring, and the region is swept 
