THE BRITISH FLORA IN THE ARCTIC

• Main Author: Geoffrey Halliday
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Greenland; Hooker; Baffin; North West Passage
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.670.1518; http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/Wats24p133.pdf

I should like to preface a discussion of the flora with a few words about British botanists in the Arctic. It is necessarily few since British botanists, like romantics and artists, gourmets, hedonists and political Europhiles have long been seduced by the lure of the south, Goethes land where the o...