I. Contributions to the fossil flora of North Greenland, being a description of the plants collected by Mr. Edward Whymper during the summer of 1867

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1869
• Subjects: Greenland; Hooker; M'Clintock; North Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1868.0061; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1868.0061

The author stated that the examination of the fossil plant-remains which had been at various times brought to Europe from North Greenland by M'Clintock, Inglefield, Colomb, and others, as well as by Mr. Olrik, formerly Inspector of North Greenland, the results of which were published in his work, Flora Fossilis Arctica,’ had led him to certain conclusions, the verification of which, by means of additional material, became very important. Accordingly Mr. R. H. Scott had applied to the British Association at the Nottingham Meeting in 1866 for a grant of money towards the expenses of an expedition to Greenland. A sum of money was voted to a Committee, consisting of Dr. Hooker, Sir W. Trevelyan, Dr. E. Perceval Wright, and Mr. E. Whymper, with Mr. Scott as Secretary. This grant was subsequently most liberally augmented by the Government-Grant Committee of the Royal Society. The condition laid down by both of these bodies was that a complete series of specimens should be deposited in the British Museum.