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AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite mugciim, 



Naiades, et circum vitreos considite foixtes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros h'lc carpifce flores: 

 Floribus et pic-tiim. divse, replete caiiistriini. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Cratel•ide^^, ite sub uudas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunoo 

 Vollite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Perte, Deae peLagi, et pingui cotichylia succo." 



N. PartheniiGiannetfaHi Rcl. I . 



No. 43. JULY 1891. 



I. — The Devoninn Ftsli-Fauna of Spitzhergen. By A. Smitii 

 Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., of tlie British Musemn 

 (Natural History). 



[Plates I.-IIL] 



During a visit to the Boyal State Museum at Stockhohn 

 two years ago the writer had the privilege of examining the 

 collection of Devonian fish-remains from Spitzhergen obtained 

 by the Swedish expeditions to that country under the direc- 

 tion of Baron Nordenskjold and Dr. A. G. Natliorst. A 

 selected series of the specimens had already been submitted 

 to Prof. Ray Lankester, who published figures and brief notes 

 upon several of the more striking remains in 1884*; but, 

 from a detailed review of the whole collection, it soon became 

 evident that the materials were worthy of more extended study, 

 and Prof. Gustav Lindstrom kindly undertook to forward 

 them to the British Museum, where comparisons with known 

 types could be most readily instituted. The opportunity for 

 such comparisons has now been afforded, and j^alaiichthyolo- 

 gists are much indebted to Prof. Lindstrom for thus rendering 

 possible the discovery of a number of new facts, which it is 

 the object of the following notes to record. 



* E. Ray Lankester, " Report on Fragments of Fos.sil Fishes from 

 the Palaeozoic Strata of Spitzhergen," Koiiafl. Svenska Vetenslc.-Akad. 

 Ilandl. vol. xx. no. 9 (1884). 



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