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The tracts vi-iled liy SCIIKI were the object of geological mve.-tiga- 

 lion during the British expedition commanded by Captain Sir <!KORGE 

 X\i;i- in l.sT.'i 7i. A number of fos>il> \\ere collected from about 

 tin- -ame localities as tlnsr from which S in i Inoii^lil his collections 

 |e. i^. froin N'ictoria I lead on Hache Peninsula and Norman Lockver 

 Ulandl. (mly one or l\\o forin^. ho\\c\er. arc mentioned from these 

 |>lacr-: the majority of the Ordovicic-silurian fossils from these regions 

 were colleclrd farther to the north-east hy the said expedition. 



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The results of the expedition were collected in "The Geology of the 

 Coast of the Arctic Lands visited hy the late British Expedition under 

 Captain Sir CKOHGI-: NARKS", hy Feilden and De h'anci 1 , and 

 Tala-ontoloirv of the Coasts etc", bv Kllieridge, both in the Quarterly 



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Journal of the (!eol. Soc. of London Vol. 34, 187S. 



Snhseijiiently. tke PKARV expedition, which was almost conteni|)orary 

 with Si.ni-:i'>. .'ollecti-d f<.s>ils at Princess Marie Kay in 1SDS. The>e were 

 described by \\. P. \Vnri KII:I.H in "( )h>er\ations and I >escnption> 

 of Arctic Fossils". Hull: of the American Mu>eimi of Natural History, 

 Vol XIII, 1900. 



The pre-cambrian rocks to the south of the Cambro silurian beds 

 in the region of Bache Peninsula and the neighbourhood were described 

 l>\ C. BUGGE, from the collections brought back by SCHEI, the lists 



