X. On the miocene plants discovered on the mackenzie river

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1880
• Subjects: Arctic; Great Bear Lake; Mackenzie River; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1879.0163; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1879.0163

On his return from his “searching expedition” to Arctic America of the year 1848, Sir John Richardson brought to London a box of fossil plant-remains, which he had collected on the Mackenzie River, between Fort Norman and the Great Bear Lake River, in latitude 65° N. The deposits from whence the specimens were obtained had been discovered by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, in 1785, and visited by Sir J. Franklin and Sir John (then Dr.) Richardson in 1825 but it was not until his second visit that Richardson was able to bring away speci­mens (Journal, vol. i, p. 186).