A^PPEISTDIX ITI. 



ON THE GEOLOGY OF FROBISHER BAY AND FIELD BAY. 



DESCRIPTION OP THE COLLECTIONS MADE BY C. P. HALL 



DURING HIS PIRST EXPEDITION IN THE 



ARCTIC REGIONS, lSr)0-'()2. 



By Prof. Ben.t. K. Emerson, of Amherst College^ MaMachusetts. 



On t.Le return of Mr. C. P. Hall to New Loudon, Conn., from his First Ex- 

 pedition to the Arctic Regions, he turned over a part of his collections, appar- 

 ently the portion which he considered of the greatest geological interest, to the 

 New York Lyceum of Natural History; and it was the subject of brief reports to 

 the Lyceum by Mr. R. P. Stevens upon the fossils and by Mr. Thomas Egleston 

 upon the rocks and ores. Mr. Stevens gave a list, without description, of seven 



species of fossils, viz : 



No. of 

 speciineus. 



Maclurea maxjua (Les. ) "i 



" " casts of lower siirfacr". ■{ 



Endoceras proieiformef (Hall) 1 



Orthoceras (badly worn) ^ 



MelioUtes (new species) ~ 



Eeliopora (new species) 1 



Malysites catenulata (Fisch. ) 1 



Eeceptaciilites (uew species) 1 



Mr. Stevens accompanied this list with notes of the stratigraphical position 

 of the species in New York, and with the remark, " This collection was made at 

 the head of Probisher Bay, lat. 03° 44/ N. and long. 08° 50' W. from Greenwich, 



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