ARCTIO BEGIONS. Ill 



Payer, J. The Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition 1872-4. Jowm. 

 It. Geogr. Soc. vol. xlv. pp. 1-19 ; map (not geological). 



The geological features of Pranz Josef Land coincide with those of 

 parts of N.E. Greenland. Dolerite is the prevailing rock in Austria 

 Sound ; there is also a Tertiary carboniferous sandstone with small 

 beds of brown coal. Upheaval is denoted by the raised beaches in 

 Austria Sound, where also all the low islands are covered by a glacial 

 cap. The mountains as a rule are 2000 to 3000 ft. high, or in a few 

 instances 5000. The glaciers occupying the depressions between these 

 form mural i)recipices on the coast 100 to 200 ft. high. R. E., Jun. 



Steenstrup, K. J. T. Om de Nordenskioldske Jaernmasser og om 

 Forekomsten af gedigent Jaern i Basalt. [The Nordenskioldian 

 iron-masses and the occurrence of native iron in basalt.] Vid, 

 Medd. Nat. Foren.'Kjohenhavn, no. 16-19, pp. 284-306 ; 2 plat68. 

 Thinks that the large blocks of native iron which Nordenskiold dis- 

 covered at Disko, North Greenland are not meteorites, but that the 

 iron belongs to the neighbouring basalt. E. E. 



Weiprecht, Carl. Grundprincipien der arktischen Forschung. 

 [Fundamental principles of arctic research.] Trieste. 



Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland 

 and the neighbouring Regions ; prepared for the use of the Arctic 

 Expedition of 1875 .... edited by Prof. T. Rupert Jones. 

 Together with Instructions .... for the use of the Expedition. 

 Pp. vi, 86 and xii, 783 ; maps. 8vo. London. 



The " Instructions " contain the following : — Prof. H. E. Roscoe. 

 On the Detection of Meteoric (Cosmical) Dust in the Snow of the 

 Arctic Regions, pp. 10, 11. — Prof. A. C. Ramsay and J. Evans. 

 General Instructions for Observations in Geology, 68-77. — Prof. N. S. 

 Maskeljme. Instructions for making Observations on, and Collecting 

 Mincralogical Specimens, 77-82. — J. W. Judd. Instructions on the 

 Observations which should be made in case Volcanoes or Evidences of 

 Volcanic Action should be met with, 83-86. 



The "Manual" consists chiefly of reprints of and extracts from 

 papers in various publications, amongst which the following are geo- 

 logical : — Notes on the .... Geology of the Voyage of the Polaris, 

 p. 321.— J. R. MacCulloch. Geological Notes on Baffin's Bay, 324, 

 325. — Sir E. Sabine. Notes on Meteoric Iron used by the Esquimaux, 

 325-327.— Sir C. L. Giesecke. The Mincralogical Geology of Green- 

 land from Cape Farewell to Disko, 327-335 ; On the Mineralogy of 

 Disko Island, :<3r) 341 ; and On the Cryolite of West Greenland, 341- 

 344.— J. W. Tayler. On the Cryolite of Evigtok, Greenland, 344- 

 347 ; and On the Veins of Tin-ore at Evigtok, 348, 349.— Sir C. L. 

 Giesecke. Catalogue of a ... . Collection of Minerals from tho 



