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3. ARCTIC REGIONS. 



Bessels, Dr. — . On Polaris Bay. Bull. Soc. Oeogr. pp. 291-299. 



Brown, Dr. R. Papers on the Physical Structure of Greenland. 



Royal Geographical Society^s Manual of Arctic Geography and 



Ethnology, pp. 1-74. 

 1. The Greenland Coast-line ; 2. The Interior of Greenland ; 3. Green- 

 land Glaciers and Sea-ice ; 4. Glacier System of Greenland ; 5. Action 

 of Sea-ice ; 6. Rise and fall of Greenland Coast ; 7. Application of 

 facts regarding Arctic Ice-action as explanatory of glaciation and other 

 ice-remains in Britain ; 8. On the Formation of Fjords ; 9. The 

 northern termination of Greenland ; 10. Debatable Points regarding 

 the Physical Structure of Greenland. Dr. Brown believes that the 

 Greenland ice-sheet overspread the country after the close of the Ter- 

 tiary period. An important geological deposit is forming off the coast, 

 and especially in the ice-fjords, by the deposition of the creamy mud 

 from the sub-glacial streams. This deposit cannot be distinguished 

 from ordinary brick clay. The Glaciers carry little moraine matter. 

 A former rise of the Greenland coast is indicated by the occurrence of 

 a fossiliferous clay everywhere along the coast ; at one place it was 

 found on a bank 500 ft. high, overlooking glaciers. The submergence 

 now going on is indicated by the encroachment of the sea on buildings 

 of many of the old settlements, the rate of fall being perhaps about 

 5 ft. in a centur}^ The present form of fjords is due to glacier- action 

 on a previously existing depression. R. E., Juu. 



. Geological Notes on the Noursoak Peninsula, Disco Island, 



and the Countrj' in the vicinity of Disco Bay, North Greenland. 

 Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasg. vol. v. pp. 55-112, geological map. 



Daubree, Prof. — . Relation sommaire de rcxpedition scientifiquc 

 n la Nouvello Zemble, commandee par M. lo professeur Norden- 

 skitild, a bord du Proefven, de Juin a, Aoiit 1875. [Summary of 

 proceedings of the Nova Zembla Expedition in the Proefven.'] 

 Oompt. Rend. t. Ixxxi. pp. 770-773. 



Note of Jurassic beds found near the Matotchkin Scharr at an 

 altitude of 3000 feet. 



De Ranee, C. E. Arctic Geology. Nature, vol. x. pp. 447, 467, 

 492, 508. 



A condensed account of the Ice of Greenland, the Cryolite, the Cre- 

 taceous and Miocene formations of Mid-Greenland, the Ovifak meteo- 

 rites, the geology of E. Greenland, and the Arctic- American Archipelago. 

 The glacial conditions and geology of Spitzbergen and Bear Island ; the 

 extent of the Carboniferous deposits in N.W. America ; and the former 



