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 THE

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

of

THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

PROCEEDINGS

of

THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

November 9, 1870.

Lieut. Reginald Clare Hart, R.E., Brompton Barracks, Chatham ; Lieut. James Frederick Lewis, R.E., Brompton Barracks, Chatham ; and M. F. Maury, Jun., Esq., 1300 Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, U.S., were elected Fellows of the Society.

The following communications were read : —

1. On the Carboniferous Flora of Bear Island (lat. 74° 30' N.). By Professor Oswald Heer, F.M.G.S.*

[Abstract.]

The author described the sequence of the strata supposed to belong to the Carboniferous and Devonian series in Bear Island, and indicated that the plant-bearing beds occurred immediately below those which, from their fossil contents, were to be referred to the Mountain Limestone. He enumerated eighteen species of plants, and stated that these indicated a close approximation of the flora to those of Tallowbridge and Kiltorkan in Ireland, the greywacke of the Vosges and the southern Black Forest, and the Verneuilii-shales of Aix and St. John's, New Brunswick. These concordant floras he considered to mark a peculiar set of beds, which he proposed to denominate the " Ursa-stage." The author remarked that the flora of Bear Island has nothing to do with any Devonian flora, and that consequently it and the other floras, which he regards as contemporaneous, must be referred to the Lower Carboniferous. Hence he argued that the line of separation between the Carboniferous and


 * The publication of this paper is deferred.

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