THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL III8T0IIY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



" perlitora spnrgite museum, 



Naiados, et circiim vitreos cansidile fontea: 

 Polliec virgineo Umi-ros h'lc larpitc llorea: 

 Florilms et piutura, divte, rcplcti; cani.strura. 

 At V03, o NymplioB CratoruU-g, itc^ sub undas ; 

 Itc, rec'UPvato variata oorallia trunco 

 Vellitu must'osis e rupit)iis, i-t inihi conchas 

 Perte, Deae polagi, et pingui conchy lia aucco." 



N.ParlheniiGiannelfasii Kcl. I. 



No. 43, JULY 1891. 



T. — The Devouinn Fish-Fauna of Spitzhergen. By A. SMlTri 

 WoODWAHD, F.L.S., F.G.S., of the Britisli Mii.sciun 

 (Natural History). 



[Plates I.-III.] 



During a visit to tlie Royal State Museum at Stockliolm 

 two years ago the writer had the privilege of exauiining- tiie 

 collection of Devonian fish-remains from Spltzbergen obtained 

 by the Swedish expeditions to that country under the direc- 

 tion of Baron Nordenskjold and Dr. A. Gr. Nathorst. A 

 selected series of the specimens had already been submitted 

 to Prof. Ray Lankester, who ]iublished 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 Liudstrom 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 palajiclithyolo- 

 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 Laukestev, " Report ou Fragments of Fossil Fishes from 

 the Palaeozoic Strata of Spitzbergen," Koiigl. Svenska Vetfnsk.-Akad, 

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



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