Correspondence — Mr. G. Linnarsson. 93 



were collected — but not described," for which I beg to apologize to 

 Mr. W. T. Blanford. 



Mr, W. T. Blanford's remark "that Cycads have not hitherto 

 been found in the Daiuudas " was therefore in so' far correct as the 

 mentioned specimens, with the exception of Noggerathia'? Hislopi, 

 although found have hitherto not been determined until I did so. 



I should also, when writing in the September Number of the Geol. 

 Mag. 1877, p. 431, that " Zamia Burclwanensis, McClelL, has been 

 described as long ago as 1850," have added that the affinities of this 

 species had been later disputed for many years, Dr. Oldham suppos- 

 ing, from the material at his disposal, that a ScMzoneura has been 

 mistaken for a Zamia, until, through the recovery of the original 

 specimen, this species was proved to be indeed a Zamia. (I 

 described this species fully, with its history, in Rec. Greol. Surv. of 

 India, 1877, vol. x. No. 2.) 



I wrote in the November Number of the Geol. Mag. 1876, 

 already referred to: "From the occurrence of the genus Glossopteris 

 in these beds (Damudas), they have been for a long time brought 

 into connexion with the Australian Coal-measures, and declared 

 without any proof as probably Palseozoic," and I referred to Dr. 

 Oldham, Mr. H. T. Blanford, and Mr. W. T. Blanford as authorities. 

 Tliis was the impression left upon me after the perusal of the papers 

 referred to — but I should have explained that besides Glossopteris, 

 some other fossil plants also were mentioned as correlating fossils. 

 I express my regret for having left these other correlations uncon- 

 sidered, but I hope to be able to explain this point further in the 

 Flora of the Lower Gondwanas in India. This note refers to all 

 my publications on this subject. Ottokar Feistmantel. 



Calcutta, Oct. 9, 1877. 



PROFESSOR MILNE AND THE GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF 



SCANDINAVIA. 



Sir, — It is not without great astonishment that I — and, I think, 

 most geologists who have devoted any attention to the post-Tertiary 

 formations of Northern. Europe — have read a paper by Professor 

 John Milne in your last July Number.^ By some observations made 

 from the railway waggon, or the steamer, when travelling through 

 Sweden and Finland, he thinks himself enabled to refute the Adews 

 since many years universally held by Scandinavian geologists 

 respecting the surface geology of the country. The features usually 

 attributed to the action of glaciers on a continental ice-sheet — as, 

 for instance, the polished and scratched rocks and the boulders — he 

 thinks better explained by the action of coast-ice. If Professor 

 Milne had stayed a day in Sweden, and made an excursion with a 

 Swedish geologist, I hardly doubt that the first part of his Travelling 

 Notes would have been unwritten, for it seems impossible that a 

 person with such good reasoning powei's should hold the views 

 advocated in those notes, after seeing a few of these scratched rocks 



1 J. Milne : Across Europe and Asia. Travelling Notes. Part I. London to St. 

 Petersburg. Geol. Mag. Dec. II. Vol. IV. p. 289 seq. 



