REPORT

of the

SCIENTIFIC RESULTS

of the
  
 VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER
DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

under the command of
 Captain GEORGE S. NARES, R.N. F.R.S.

and the late
Captain FRANK TOURLE THOMSON, R.N.

Prepared under the Superintendence of

the late
Sir. C. WYVILLE THOMSON, Knt., F.R.S., &c.
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh
Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on board

and now of
JOHN MURRAY, LL.D., Ph. D. &c.
One of the naturalists of the expedition.


BOTANY Volume I

1885
 
 Report on the Present State of Knowledge of various Insular Floras, being an introduction to the first Three Parts of the Botany of the Challenger Expedition.

by

  William Botting Hemsley, A.L.S.

(Received March 25, 1885.)


75 pp.

This Report is bound in the H.M.S. Challenger Reports, Botany Volume 1, 1885.

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in the library holdings of
Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire.

June, 2004.

Copyright © 2004 by David C. Bossard.







A high resolution  (800 ppi) world map showing the H.M.S. Challenger Track and Sounding Stations
is available here in three sections.
From Zoology Volume LIII, 1887.

Click on image for map at 200 ppi.
Left map

Left Section at 800 ppi
 Middle Map

Middle Section at 800 ppi
 Right map

Right Section at 800 ppi


Editorial notes  p1
CONTENTS

CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY REMARKS  1   001  002  003  004
Classification of Islands  5   005  006  007
Lists of the Plants  7   007  008  009  010  011  012  013  014  015  016  017  018  019
Examination of some of the special features of Insular Floras  19   019  020  021  022  023  024  025  026  027  028  029  030  031  032
Indigenous and Endemic Genera and Species of Flowering Plants  32   032  033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041  042
Dispersal of Plants by Oceanic currents and Birds  42   042  043  044  045  046  047  048
Classification of the Flowering Plants  48   048  049  050  051  052  053  054  055  056  057  058  059  060  061  062  063  064  065
Concluding Remarks  65   065  066  067  068  069
Bibliography  69   069  070  071  072  073  074
Alphabetical listing  74.   074  075

NOTE: PLATES ARE INCLUDED  IN VOLUME III