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Unfortunately SCHEI was not able to study the beds next younger 

 than his Series E, so we do not know what is lying between these high 

 Devonian beds and the Upper Carboniferous limestones studied 

 at Store Bjernekap (Bear Cape). Probably the lower Carboniferous here, 

 as in other districts of the Arctic Archipelago, is developed as a continental 

 deposition of plant-bearing sandstones and shales. 



The bulk of the carboniferous fossils collected by SCHEI were found 

 at Store Bjornekap, a locality about 75 km. north of the inner end of 

 Gaasefjord. The rock at Bjornekap is, according to SCHEI, in the lower 

 part on unfossiliferous, brownish grey, hard limestone, higher up a white 

 limestone, rich in chert, and in this upper horizon the fossils were 

 found. 



Carboniferous limestone was also found far to the north in Axel 

 Heibergs Land, in Svarte Vo>g (Black Wall), but from this locality only 

 a few fossils, embedded in dark gray, not cherty limestone were brought. 



The carboniferous fossils were, after the return of the expedition sent 

 to Prof. TSCHERNYSCHEW, who did not, however, live to see the result of 

 his studies on the fossils printed. In fact the work, in which he was 

 assisted by P. STEPANOW, who had taken the study of the corals and 

 bryozoa, was not quite finished at the death of TSCHERNYSCHEW about 

 New Year 1914. The closing chapter of the manuscript was still un- 

 written. Besides Dr. STEPANOW also Dr. P. v. WITTENBURG of Petrograd, 

 has done a very considerable and important work in looking through 

 TSCHERNYSCHEW'S manuscript and preparing it for publication. This paper 

 by TSCHEHNYSCHEW and STEPANOW ] ,,0bercarbonfauna von Konig Oscars 

 und Heibergs Land", printed 1916, is no. 34 of this report. 



A list of the fossils described in this paper follows below. When 

 marked with a B the species was found at Bjornekap; when marked with 

 S. V. it was found at Svarte Va?g. 



**Sclieiia tuberosa TSCIIERIV., B. 

 Zaphren'is sp., B. 

 Clisiophyllum (?) sp., B. 

 Lithosirotion borealis STL-CKKXB., B. 



Geinitsella columnaris SCHL. var. ramosa sparsig. GEIN., B; S. V. 

 Stenopora aff. ovata LONSD., B. 

 Fenestella elegantissima EICHW , B. 

 Fenestella veneris FISCHER, B. 

 Fenestella augusta FISCHER, B 

 Fenestella orientalis EICHW., B. 

 Fenestella plebeja M'Cov, B. 

 Fenestella varicosa M'Cov, B. 



The bivalves were studied by Dr. LICHAREW. 



