THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE II. VOL. V. 



No. IX.— SEPTEMBER, 1878. 



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I. — Notes on some Arctic Silurian or Devonian (?) Fossils from 

 Beechey Island, brought home by the S.Y. "Pandora" in 

 1875, AND FROM Port Dundas, Lancaster Sound, by an earlier 

 Expedition in 1853.^ 



By Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S., 



of the British. Museum. 



(PLATE X.) 



I AM indebted to my friend, Mr. Thomas Crowther Brown, of 

 Further Barton, Cirencester, for placing in my hands some time 

 since certain Arctic Corals (brought home in 1853 or 1854'), for 

 illustration, to be afterwards deposited in the Geological Department 

 of the British Museum. Some time previously I had also received 

 a small but interesting series of specimens from Beechey Island, 

 collected by Dr. A. Horner, the Medical Officer to the S.Y. "Pandora" 

 (Captain Sir Allen Young), and by the Artist to the Expedition, 

 G. E. De Wilde, Esq. ; these latter were collected in August, 1875. 



I should not have undertaken to notice these myself but for the 

 valuable aid kindly afforded me by my friend Mr. Eobert Etheridge, 

 r.E.S., and upon going into the Bibliography of these Arctic fossils, 

 I found that the late Mr. J. W. Salter, Prof. Haughton, and others, 

 had already noticed the greater part of them, and there is con- 

 sequently little or no need to do more than follow in their steps. 



In June the Geological Department of the British Museum was 

 enriched by the collections made by Captain H. W. Fielden, E.A., 

 F.G.S., and Dr. E. W. Coppinger, E.N., of H. M. S. "Alert" and 

 "Discovery" (Captain Sir George Nares), and described by Mr. E. 

 Etheridge.^ 



In July the Museum of Practical Geology transferred to the 

 British Museum a series of specimens collected by Admiral Om- 

 manney, E.N., Captain Austin, E.N., Dr. Sutherland, Captain Penny, 

 and others in their Yoyages to Wellington Channel in 1850-51 (in 

 search of Sir John Franklin), and described by Mr, J. W. Salter, 

 F.G.S., in Sutherland's Journal (Appendix to vol. ii. Plates v. and 

 vi.) ; most of these are from Cape Eiley and Beechey Island. There 

 are also a number of fossils from Depot Point, Albert Land, and 



1 Probably by some of the officers of the " Phoenix " (Captain Inglefield), which 

 visited Beechey Island both in 1853 and 1854, making two summer trips, brino'lno- 

 back with her on the second voyage part of the "Belcher Expedition." ^ 



2 See Mr. Etheridge's paper in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1878, vol. xxxiv. p. 568 

 plates xxv.-xxix. 



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