Geological Society. 95 



ag is not uncommon, and then converted into a pool, in which the 

 ossiferous clay was accumulated. The author noticed the geogra- 

 phical changes which must have occurred in the district since the 

 formation of the deposit, and indicated the proportions of the remains 

 of young and old Bisons and Reindeer, which confirmed the con- 

 clusion arrived at in his former paper, that the Bisons were here in 

 the summer and the Reindeer in the winter. He regarded the de- 

 posit as of late Pleistocene age. 



11. " Description of the Fossil Organic Remains from Bendigo." 

 By M. Carl August Zacharise. 



In this paper the author described the fossils obtained by him 

 from the slate deposits in the neighbourhood of the auriferous 

 quartz reefs of Bendigo. He remarked on the absence of Trilobites 

 and of Diplograptian Graptolites ; Lingula is of very rare occur- 

 rence, Monoprionidian Graptolites abound, bivalved Phyllopods are 

 frequent, aud there are doubtful examples of a Stomapod Crusta- 

 cean. This last is described but not named. The Phyllopod is 

 described as forming a new genus named Alaocaris. The Lingula 

 is identified with L. Davisii. Some species of Sertidaria are de- 

 scribed as new under the names of S. aitstralis, S. astricus, S. 

 truncus lapiUarum, S. magna, and S. virgata. Of Graptolites the 

 author notices the occurrence of gonothecte (?), and of the following 

 species: — Graptolites SedgwicJcii, Graptolitlius {Didymogapsus) pla- 

 nus, sp. n., G. extensus, geminus, serratulus, tripedes, sp. n., tetra- 

 pleurus, sp. n., MurcMsoni, fruticosus, pygmmus, sp. n., campanula, 

 sp. n., crassus, sp. n., bryonoides, scopula, sp. n., spinifer, sp. n., 

 quadribrachiatus and var. gracilis, octohrachiatus, Maclcayi, sp. n., 

 Hutcliinsoni, sp. n., roseta, sp. n., hriareus, sp, n., Jilicatus, sp. n., 

 Pythagoras, sp. n., cardunus, ep. n., stellatus, sp. n., and trifarium, 

 sp. n., and Fhyllograptus folium. 



November 7th, 1877.— Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



2. " Notes on Fossil Plants discovered in Grinnell Land by Capt. 

 H. W. Feilden, Naturalist to the English North-Polar Expedition." 

 By Prof. Oswald Heer, F.M.G.S. 



Near Discovery Harbour, where H.M.S. " Discovery " wintered 

 in 1875-6, in about 81° 45' N. lat., and 61° 45' W. long., a bed of 

 lignite, from 25 to 30 feet thick, was found, resting unconformably 

 upon the azoic schists of which Grinnell Land chiefly consists. The 

 lignite was overlain by black shales and sandstones, the former con- 

 taining many remains of plants ; and above these there were, here and 

 there, beds of fine mud and glacial drift, containing shells of marine 

 MoUusca of species now living in the adjacent sea. This glacial 

 Aarine deposit occurs up to levels of 1000 feet, indicating a depres- 

 sion and subsequent elevation of the region to at least this extent. 



