310 MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
Clements R. Markham, F.L.S. —On the results of the Cinchona cul- 
tivation in India. 
Professor Oswald Heer.—On the Miocene Flora of North Greenland. 
W. S. Mitchell, LL.B.—On the Fossils of the Leaf-bed at Alum 
Bay, in the Isle of Wight. 
Foster.—Discovery of ancient trees below the surface of the land, 
at the Western Dock, now being constructed at Hull 
N THE Miocene Fiora or NogrH GREENLAND. By Pro- 
fessor Oswald Heer. 
The Royal Dublin Society is in possession of a rich collection of 
fossil plants, which have been brought from Arctic Regions by Captain 
Sir F. Leopold M‘Clintock, and Captain Philip H. Colomb at various 
times, and have been presented by these gentlemen to the Society. 
The Society have entrusted the whole collection to me for examination. 
Before I received these, Dr. J. D. Hooker had entrusted to me speci- 
mens which had been presented to the Museum at Kew by Dr. Lyall 
and Dr. Walker. In this collection I discovered seven determinable 
species, which are also to be found among the specimens of the Dublin 
collection, which consists of sixty-three recognisable species. If we 
~ add to this the additional species mentioned by Brongniart and Vau- 
pel (?), we obtain a total of sixty-six species. 
All the specimens of the Dublin and Kew collections come from 
Atanekerdluk, as do also the specimens which Captain E. A. Inglefield 
brought home, of which he deposited a portion in the Museum of the 
Geological Survey, and retained a portion in his own hands. The 
former have been kindly sent to me by Sir Roderick Murchison, while 
I have obtained the latter through the goodness of their owner. 
Atanekerdluk lies on the Waigat, opposite Disco, in lat. 70°. A 
steep hill rises on the coast to a height of 1080 feet, and at this level 
the fossil plants are fonnd. Large quantities of wood in a fossilized 
or carbonized condition lie about. Captain Inglefield observed one 
trunk thicker than a man’s body standing upright. The leaves, how- 
ever, are the most important portion of the deposit. The rock in 
which they are found is a sparry iron ore, which turns reddish-brown 
on exposure to the weather, In this rock the leaves are found, in 
places packed closely together, and many of them are in a very per 
fect condition. ' give us a most valuable insight into the nature 
of the vegetatiori whieh formed this primæval forest. 
