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OBSERVATIONS (IN THE VEGETATION Ol- TUE VNTARCTIC SEA 247
The collection of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902
—03 to the South Orkney Islands is the greatest hitherto described
and some conclusions as to depth, bottom etc. may be drawn from
Gefps’ and Holmes’s papers.1 Mr. and Mrs. Gepp describe several
new and interesting species in a paper on algæ brought back from
Victoria Land; but unfortunately this paper has not yet been printed.
Of the charcot-expedition of 1904—05 I have not received any news.
When the author of the present treatise accompanied the Swedish
Antarctic Expedition, he proposed to himself to make a careful
investigation of marine flora, in order to give a picture true to life of its
nature, according to excellent types from other seas. He knows very
well, that he has not been very successful, owing to some extent at
least to adverse circumstances, which interfered with the progress of
the enterprise.
On the i Ith of January 1902 the »Antarctic» under the command
of Dr. O. nordenskjöld, reached the Antarctic regions, and there
remained until the 26th of February, when we were compelled to return
to more northern latitudes. The collections made during this journey
were sent ashore at Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands and thus saved.
It must appear rather strange to anyone unfamiliar with the matter,
that these collections should be so very small and not at all
comparable to those, which were made during the second and shorter stay in
November and December of the same year, and which were subse
quently almost entirely lost with the ship. The list of the dredge
stations will illustrate better than words the difference between the work
done during the first summer and that during the second. The
explanation of this lies in the fact that the expedition onboard the
vessel changed its leader after the first summer; during that time scienti
fic interests often hade to give way to others, the importance of
which this is not the proper place to discuss.
I brought in January 1902 back from a couple of stations a material,
which was sufficient to prove that the flora is richer than expected,
but quite insufficient to prevent me from forming an entirely wrong
conclusion as to the general appearance of the vegetation. This wrong
idea quite disappeared during our second visit, when the expedition, under
1 A. & S. E. Gepp: Antarctic algæ. Journal of Botany, April 1905.
–Leptosarca: a corrcction. Ibid. May 1905.
—— More antarctic algæ: Ibid. July 190;.
E. M. Holmes: Some South Orkney algæ. Ibid. July 1905.
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