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QtAF HOLTEDAHL [SEC. ARGT. EXP. FRAM 



The tracts visited by SCHEI were the object of geological investiga- 

 tion during the British expedition commanded by Captain Sir GEORGE 

 NARES in 187576. A number of fossils were collected from about 

 the same localities as those from which SCHEI brought his collections 

 (e. g. from Victoria Head on Bache Peninsula and Norman Lockyer 

 Island). Only one or two forms, however, are mentioned from these 

 places: the majority of the Ordovicic-silurian fossils from these regions 

 were collected farther to the north-east by the said expedition. 



The results of the expedition were collected in "The Geology of the 

 Coast of the Arctic Lands visited by the late British Expedition under 

 Captain Sir GEORGE NARES", by Feilden and De Ranee, and 

 "Palaeontology of the Coasts etc". byEtheridge, both in the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Geol. Soc. of London Vol. 34, 1878. 



Subsequently, tke PEARY expedition, which was almost contemporary 

 with SCHEI'S, collected fossils at Princess Marie Bay in 1898. These were 

 described by R. P. WHITFIELD in "Observations and Descriptions 

 of Arctic Fossils", Bull: of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 Vol XIII, 1900. 



The pre-cambrian rocks to the south of the Cambro-silurian beds 

 in the region of Bache Peninsula and the neighbourhood were described 

 by C. BUGGE, from the collections brought back by SCHEI, the lists 



