auf dem Schiffe Rurik» (in KOTZEBUE, Entdeckungsreise Bd. 3, Weimar 1821, English translation in HOOKER’s Bot. Misc. 4, 1830 pp. 305-323). Part of the collections were published by EHRENBERG (Fungos a viro clarissimo ADALBERTO DE CHAMISSO . . . collectos; Bonn 1820).
        1816.   Kühlewein, Paul Edward, born 1798, collected at Sitka.
        1823.   Wormskjold, Morten, born in Denmark, accompanied KOTZEBUE, CHAMISSO and ESCHSCHOLTZ on the ship Rurik but left the vessel at Petropavlovsk in Kamtchatka. Later, on his way home to Denmark, he visited Kodiak and Sitka. His botanical collections were destroyed by fire in Copenhagen, but a small collection of his Alaskan material is found in the Botanical Museum of Oslo.
        1825.   Kyber collected 5 grasses, now in the TRINIUS herbarium, at Sitka.
        About 1825.   Kusmischeff, Paul, governor of Kamtchatka. Specimens from Alaska labelled with his name are found in the Leningrad museums. Duplicates in Nat. Herb., Washington.
        1826-27.   Lay, George T., naturalist. and Collier, Alexander, surgeon, accompanied Capt. BEECHY on the sloop Blossom on its voyage in the Arctic. In 1826, when only COLLIER collected, the following places in Alaska were visited: July 22-30 Chamisso I., Kotzebue Sd (with trips in small boats to nearby places); July 31 2 miles N. of Cape Krusenstern; Aug. 2 Cape Thompson; Aug. 5 Pt Hope; Aug. 7 Lisburne; Aug. 9 Cape Beaufort; Aug. 14 Wainwright Inlet; Aug. 20 between Icy Cape and Cape Beaufort; Aug. 26 Pt Hope; Aug. 28-Oct. 14 Chamisso I. (with trips to nearby places). In 1827, when both LAY and COLLIER took part in the work, the following places were visited: Aug. 21 Pt Rodney S. of Bering Straits; Aug. 5-14 Kotzebue Sd; Aug. 20 Cape Lisburne; Aug. 26-29 Kotzebue Sd; Aug. 31-Sept. 6 Pt Clarence; Sept. 9-Oct. 6 Kotzebue Sd. The collections, which are kept at Kew, were published by HOOKER and ARNOTT in »The Botany of Capt. Beechy’s Voyage» (London 1841).
        1827.   Mertens, Carl Heinrich, from Bremen, naturalist, accompanied Lütke on the corvette Senjavin. The ship visited Sitka June 24-July 31, 1827, where extensive collections were made, then proceeded to Unalaska, the Pribilof Is and St. Matthew I. Collections in Leningrad, duplicates in many other museums. Specimens often labelled »Sitka Bongard». The collections made at Sitka were published by BONGARD under the title »Observations sur la végétation de l'île de Sitcha» (Mém. Acad. Sc. St. Petersb. 6 ser. tome 2, 1833). MERTEN's father published two letters concerning his son's investigations in