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to these views the age of Seriest‘. may tall into the (joeynnnus lpossililv also the New Scotland) or tIu-realmnts.

A question that would he of interest to solve would he whethernnv

of the faunas quoted from the earlier inv tigntions on fossils hronght

home by Expeditions from the Arctic arc pelngo represent the some hori-

zon as Series B of Ellesmerelnnd. The ditticnlly here is that nlostofthe

existing li:

s are, so old that they really do not give much information.

Besides we very often find that fossils from different llori ins are mixed.

A revision of the identifications of the, older collections would ltt‘ of great importance for our knowledge of the stratigraphy and palaco- geography of the Arctic regions. As far as l have seen nowhere else in the Arctic has a fauna been found that shows so much I'Pst‘lnhlnnl'e‘ to the one considered in this paper that I should dare to correlate then]. The fauna collected hy Dr. H.-\\'

' on the west shore of Kennedy Chan- nel, containng the followng forms according to identiﬁcations made hy MEEK‘: Zupllrent'is Haysii Mimic. Syrinyopam. Fnrosilcs. Sire/illo- menu rhonihoidalis, Strap/Iodonta chrlleymia llALI.t?t. Strap/1. Becki HALLt‘?), thyiichonella s11, Coelo-s‘pira concrum ll.\LL. Spiri/er pertu- mellosus HALL. Loitonemul‘?) Nanci MEEK. Orthocerus sp.. Illwnnx, is ~as MEEK emphasizes —- of Lower l'leldcrherg age hnt it is without doubt younger than the faunas of Series B. After the list quoted it

must be 4: 'related with New Scotland and Remit and therefore corre-

sponds prohahly with the lower part of Scuei's Series D.

A fauna very often met with in the list of Arctic ft?$$ll\, the do- tailed slratigraphical horizon of which cannot yet he said to he known. is what may he termed the I,issati'ypu [thoouifanna The form which goes under the names RILyiwhoncIla or Atrypa phoca Se.er has heen quoted from a great number of Arctic localities mostly together with certain corals. It w

s mentioned by SALTEttz. HAUGIH'ON ETnEnnicn. AMI. LAMBE and LEE from in all the following plar 5. Cape Riley. Corn» \vallis ls|.. Leopold lsl., Griffith's l Seal lsl.I Beechey Isl, Gnrnier Bo}: W. and E side of Boothia Feli,. Ferry Point. Dolihin liar. Hesscls liny,

shores of Prince Regent Intel and possibly others

The L. pliuca—fauna is generally mentioned only as Silurian. in tho newer reports of the Canadian paleontologists it is placed at near the Niogaran, yet as almost all the forms are unknown outside the Arctic"

‘ American Journal at Si-ivmo, tells, sec.

- See list of Synouyn on m” v H see, e. g. the Ian.- gi .. by or, n We» m

writ-S. vol, XI. p.31.

.\,\n in "The tlruiw- ot' the Neptune".