126 GBOLoer. 



Petitot, Abbe E. Geographic de I'Athabaskaw-Mackenzie et des 

 grauds lacs du bassin arctique. [Geography of the Athabaskaw- 

 Mackenzie and of the Great Lakes of the Arctic Basin.] Paris. 

 [Dated 1875, but not published until 1876.] 



Touches on many geological subjects. 



Rink,.H. Dm Gronlands Inland og muligheden afat berejse sammc. 



[The Inland Part of Greenland and the Possibility of travelling 



there,] Ffa VidensJcabens Verden* KjobenJiavn, 1875, ii. no. 0, 



pp. 125-175. 



: After some remarks as to the form and size of the island, and on the 



former ideas of the condition of the country and its ice-sheet, the 



author gives an account of this ice-sheet (inland-ice) and of its sup- 



.pos:ed origin and continued formation. E. E. 



Schmidt, Prof. Friedrich. The Tertiary Formations on the Nor- 

 thern Shores of the Pacific. St. Petersburg Society of Naturcdists. 

 Nature^ vol. xv. p. 88. 

 The continental Miocenes, with coal-seams and plants, extend along 

 the Amoor basin,. Kamtchatka, Alaska, Yancouver Island, to the Mac- 

 kenzie river, Greenland, and Spitzbergen. The newer marine Pliocene 

 deposits contain 80 species of MoUusca, of which 18 are extinct, 6 only 

 inhabit the Polar sea, and the remaining b(S the N. Pacific. A con- 

 nexion between the Pacific and Atlantic existed across the Polar sea. 



C. E. D. 



