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Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North

APPENDIX A

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Salaries of the Royal Danish Officials in Iceland, which they receive from the Icelandic land-revenues.

Florins [58]

The Governor of Iceland 2000

Office expenses 600

The deputy for the western district 1586

Office expenses 400

Rent 200

The deputy for the northern and eastern districts 1286

Office expenses 400

The bishop of Iceland, who draws his salary from the school-revenues, has paid him from this treasury 800

The members of the Supreme Court:

One judge 1184

First assessor 890

Second assessor 740

The land-bailiff of Iceland 600

Office expenses 200

Rent 150

The town-bailiff of Reikjavik 300

The first police-officer of Reikjavik, who is at the same time gaoler, and therefore has 50 fl. more than the second officer 200

The second police-officer 150

The mayor of Reikjavik only draws from this treasury his house-rent, which is 150

The sysselman of the Westmanns Islands 296

The other sysselmen, each 230

Medical department and midwifery:

The physician 900

House-rent 150

Apothecary of Reikjavik 185

House-rent 150

The second apothecary at Sikkisholm 90

Six surgeons in the country, each 300

House-rent for some 30

For others 25

A medical practitioner on the Northland 110

Reikjavik has two midwives, each receives 50

The other midwives in Iceland, amounting to thirty, each receives 100

These midwives are instructed and examined by the land physician, who has the charge of paying them annually.

Organist of Reikjavik 100

From the school-revenues

The bishop receives 1200

The teachers at the high school:

The teacher of theology 800

The head assistant, besides free lodging 500

The second assistant 500

House-rent 50

The third assistant 500

House-rent 50

The resident at the school 170

LIST OF INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS collected in Iceland

1. Crustacea.

Pagarus Bernhardus, Linnæus.

2. Insecta.

a. Coleoptera. Nebria rubripes, Dejean. Patrobus hyperboreus. Calathus melanocephalus, Fabr. Notiophilus aquaticus. Amara vulgaris, Duftsihm. Ptinus fur, Linn. Aphodius Lapponum, Schh. Otiorhynchus lævigatus, Dhl. Otiorhynchus Pinastri, Fabr. Otiorhynchus ovatus. Staphylinus maxillosus. Byrrhus pillula.

b. Neuroptera. Limnophilus lineola, Schrank.

c. Hymenoptera. Pimpla instigator, Gravh. Bombus subterraneus, Linn.

d. Lepidoptera. Geometra russata, Hüb. Geom. alche millata. Geom. spec. nov.

e. Diptera. Tipula lunata, Meig. Scatophaga stercoraria. Musca vomitaria. Musca mortuorum. Helomyza serrata. Lecogaster islandicus, Scheff. [59] Anthomyia decolor, Fallin.

LIST OF ICELANDIC PLANTS collected by Ida Pfeiffer in the Summer of the year 1845

Felices. Cystopteris fragilis.

Equisetaceæ. Equisetum Teltamegra.

Graminæ. Festuca uniglumis.

Cyperaceæ. Carea filiformis. Carea cæspitosa. Eriophorum cæspitosum.

Juncaceæ. Luzula spicata. Luzula campestris.

Salicineæ. Salix polaris.

Polygoneæ. Remux arifolus. Oxyria reniformes.

Plumbagineæ. Armeria alpina (in the interior mountainous districts).

Compositæ. Chrysanthemum maritimum (on the sea-shore, and on marshy fields). Hieracium alpinum (on grassy plains). Taraxacum alpinum. Erigeron uniflorum (west of Havenfiord, on rocky soil).

Rubiaceæ. Gallium pusillum. Gallium verum.

Labiatæ. Thynus serpyllum.

Asperifoliæ. Myosotis alpestris. Myosotis scorpioicles.

Scrophularineæ. Bartsia alpina (in the interior north-western valleys). Rhinanthus alpestris.

Utricularieæ. Pinguicula alpina. Pinguicula vulgaris.

Umbelliferæ. Archangelica officinalis (Havenfiord).

Saxifrageæ. Saxifraga cæspitosa (the real Linnæan plant: on rocks round Hecla).

Ranunculaceæ. Ranunculus auricomus. Ranunculus nivalis. Thalictrum alpinum (growing between lava, near Reikjavik). Caltha palustris.

Cruciferæ. Draba verna. Cardamine pratensis.

Violariceæ. Viola hirta.

Caryophylleæ. Sagina stricta. Cerastium semidecandrum. Lepigonum rubrum. Silene maritima. Lychnis alpina (on the mountain-fields round Reikjavik).

Empetreæ. Empetrum nigrum.

Geraniaceæ. Geranium sylvaticum (in pits near Thingvalla).

Troseaceæ. Parnassia palustris.

Œnothereæ. Epilobium latifolium (in clefts of the mountain at the foot of Hecla). Epilobium alpinum (in Reiker valley, west of Havenfiord).

Rosaceæ. Rubus arcticus. Potentilla anserina. Potentilla gronlandica (on rocks near Kallmanstunga and Kollismola). Alchemilla montana. Sanguisorba officinalis. Geum rivale. Dryas octopela (near Havenfiord).

Papilionaceæ. Trifolium repens.

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