URING the summer of 1921 Professor Sewarp and Mr. В.Е. Нотттом 
D of Cambridge, England, visited Greenland and, with the Danish 
Arctic Station as headquarters made boat excursions to the famous 
fossiliferous strata of the Cretaceous and Tertiary areas of the Nordost- 
bugt and the Waygat coasts. To facilitate the work of Prof. SEWARD 
I was commissioned by the Director of the Arctie Station to undertake 
the arrangements incidental to the Expedition. | 
Prof. SEwARD (26) published an account of his visit in a book 
entitled “A summer in Greenland” and his Research Assistant Mr. R. E. 
Ногттом (6) gave a brief description of plant life in Greenland in which 
he also incorporated his own observations. In both publications anumber 
of excellent photographs illustrate different aspects of the vegetation. 
I had thus the privilege in the company of the English Botanists 
to visit a number of places hitherto only partially explored. But as the 
area thoroughly investigated is always small compared with the vast 
extent of the country every traveller who leaves the ordinary routes 
may expect to make new and interesting observations and to add to 
the records on the distribution of plants given by previous collectors 
(see Bibliography). 
Had our route been selected with special reference to the most 
promising localities of living plants my collections would undoubtedly 
have been more copious and more interesting, but our principal aim 
was the collection of fossils. The richest localities for fossil plants do 
not always coincide with the most favourable conditions for the plant- 
life of to-day. 
I nevertheless succeded in obtaining abt. 1000 specimens of her- 
barium plants and a number of observations on the flora of the districts 
visited, besides several unexpected records of range-extensions. I owe 
this in part to the courtesy of Prof. Sewarp who always gave every 
consideration to my work, and I offer him my best thanks. 
As the inner and northern parts of the Nordost Bugt are out of 
the way of the ordinary travel-routes, I append a brief account of my 
observations. 
