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17 are species of which, the leaves are so marked that their identi- 

 fication is quite certain. 

 5 Cryptogams have been satisfactorily recognized. 

 Accordingly, though it must be allowed that the systematic position 

 of many of the plants from North Greenland is still uncertain, yet 

 the considerable number of absolutely identified species which can 

 be produced enables us to form a clear idea of the Miocene Flora of 

 North Greenland. 



We are glad to hear that the Swedish Polar Expedition of last 

 summer has brought home a rich harvest of Miocene plant-remains 

 from Spitzbergen, which have been entrusted to Prof. Heer for 

 examination and description. 



II. — MusEE Tetlek, Catalogue Ststematique par T. C. Winkler. 



Suppl. I. 1868. 



THE additions to the Paleeontological collection of this valuable 

 Museum are noticed in the present Supplement, which is a con- 

 tinuation of the Catalogue previously edited by the author, who suc- 

 ceeded Yan Breda as Curator of the Museum. The species are 

 classed zoologically under the three great geological periods, and 

 amount to 12760. 



III. — ^Des Tortues Fossiles conservees dans la Musee Tetler, 

 PAR T. C. Winkler. 1869. 



THIS Memoir consists of 27 folding lithographic plates, with 151 

 pages of descriptive letter-press, illustrative of the species of 

 fossil turtles in the Teyler Museum at Harlem, of which the collec- 

 tion contains a considerable number. It is from the pen of the able 

 Curator, Dr. Winkler, and contains not only detailed descriptions, 

 but critical remarks on the species. In noticing the Ghelone longiceps 

 of Owen, Dr. Winkler cites it as a synonym of Emys ParMnsoni, 

 Gray, as he considers, from certain characters alluded to in the text, 

 it should be placed with the latter instead of the former genus. 

 There is some confusion about the synonymy of this species, as may 

 be seen by comparing the works of Bronn and Pictet. 



Geological Society of London. — I. May 26th, 1869. Papers 

 read : — 



1. ''Notes on the Geology of Cape York Peninsula, Australia." 

 By Alex. Eattray, M.D. Communicated by the President. 



The author stated that the Eastern mountain-range of Australia 

 is produced through and forms the axis of the peninsula of Cape 

 York ; it consists of various granites and porphyries, gneiss, fel- 

 spathic and quartzose rocks. In Cape York itself the rock is a 

 porphyry, with numerous crystals of yellowish quartz. Eesting on 

 the flanks of this axis are beds of sandstone, regarded as of Carbo- 

 niferous age by the Kev. W. B. Clarke, and referred to the Oolite by 



