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Durng the winter llel‘lutl 1898— qunrters at Rice Strnil. Imtn'een Ellesmere Inunl and l’im Isle. at about latitude 78” 16’ N. In Soptexnhrr and th-Inlmr ISftHf the gen] P. SCIIEI. whose enrly tlenth is unn'h I'I-gretlml. nuilertonk i-xrnrsious ll'Ulll

lhu ..l“ram" lny in winter

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the winter qunrters westward aull norlhuvslnaril. mnl made (Jfbel'villlulh and geologital rollections. 'l‘hus from llll> lneiinil nhwrvatinns (H't‘lll' in his (liar?! from Hines Sound mill its |\\n nnrllmri-sli-rn :u'lns Flngler Bay and I'Ieitstail Bay. In Marrh 1809 a slmlee uxrnrsinn was Inlwn northwards to Barhe Peninsula. hut the ('Hl|l roinlmllml |l||' polar ex- plorers to ['t‘lUI'Il In llw, “Fl-mu" alter a >llm'l slay at the south-east corner of the Peninsula Al the end nf April. Scum set out on auntlwr exrursinu. alnl in the lirst half of May gmnlngirnl investigations were made on Bathe Peninsula. Norman lion-lever Island in Pl'lllt‘f’.‘\ Mario Bay, and nlso along the rnasl at \'1lt'fltll.~ ltlilt' s north of the latter. lit \\'K'$|\\‘ill'tl In

Finally in July an excursion was Iflﬂllt' from Rive St Twin HIm'ier Valley mnl Alexandra I’lioril.

SCI-1:! himself, in his preliminary report, gave the chief rt‘slllls of his investigations. As regards [he geological ('UlltllllUlIS. especially the sedimentary beds, on Bache Peninsula and the sun-minding lllsll'ft there is in reality not much more of note that can he fmnnl in the diaries. The essential Ieature of this present report is tln- :ICL'UIIIII nI the fossil material which was hrought hack. Unfortunately this is not a very grateful task. The collections of fussils which occur from the lower horizons in the bells studied by Scum are extremely fragmentary. with only a few foslls, and these moreover quite incomplete This in even more regrettable, as a closer knowledge of Ihese oliler fauna. whirh

are otherwise unknown in these regions, would he of extremely great interest. From one oucureuce only — the Ordovician heds of Norman Luceyer Island 7 we have a someth considerable amount of fossil

material in a better state of preservation.