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the reader to the discussion of the character of the brachiopod fauna 

 (pp. 608— 609), where the possibility has been dealt with of a Permo- 

 Carboniferous or a Permian age for some portion of our Carboni- 

 ferous formations in North-east Greenland. It was argued that the 

 brachiopod fauna could scarcely give any great support to such a 

 possibility, even if the theory could not be entirely neglected. 



In the comparison with the Carboniferous formations of the 

 Spitzbergen archipelago, there is another locality to be taken into 

 consideration, viz., Kung Karl's Land (King Charles' Land). The 

 Nathorst Expedition found in 1908 in Kung Karl's Ö (King Charles' 

 Island) at Andrées Bay, a number of boulders of Carboniferous lime- 

 stone, resembling those existing at Lovén's Berg, and other places in 

 Hinlopen Strait (Nathorst, 1901, p. 372). In these boulders there 

 were found a number of fossils, of which Tschernyschew deter- 

 mined some species, but which say little about the level, however. 

 Among these boulders, which I have had the opportunity of study- 

 ing at the palæontological Department of the Stale Museum in Stock- 

 holm, there were several different types of rocks represented, and I 

 wish to direct special attention to a fragment perfectly in agreement 

 with the white, and apparently crystalline, but, in reality, conglom- 

 eratic limestone, belonging to the collection treated of in this paper, 

 and which was found in situ in the Cape Jungersen section, and in 

 free-lying boulders from the Eskimo Naze and Sophus Müller's 

 Naze. 



Arctic North America makes us acquainted with marine 

 Carboniferous at several places. First we must mention the finds 

 on Grant or Grinnell Land, just in the tract that lies nearest to 

 northern Greenland, being separated from Greenland by (Smith Sound, 

 Kennedy Channel and) Robbeson Channel. The localities here are 

 situated on the easternmost point of Grant Land, partly on the Feild- 

 ing Peninsula with Cape Joseph Henry, and Parry Peninsula with 

 Cape Hecla, the localities lying between 82°30'— 82°55' N. Lat. and 

 about 65° W. from Greenwich, from which places Nariîs' Expedition 

 brought home collections, and, partly, at Cape Sheridan 82°27' N. 

 Lat. and 61°30' W. from Greenwich, from which the Peary Exped- 

 ition brought home fossils. The fossils from the former locality 

 have been described by R. Ethkridge, and the geological conditions 

 by Feilden and De Range; the fossils from the latter locality have 

 been dealt with by Whitfield. The distance between the two 

 localities is no more than about 30 — 36 miles, so that they can 

 suitably be mentioned in the same connection. 



Next we have to note that marine Carboniferous has been dis- 

 covered moie to Ihe west on the islands west of Baffin's Bav bv 



