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Mya truncata, var. Uddevallensis. 

 Pecten Islandicus. 

 Nullipore, with Saxicava. 



3. From Bell Sound, at about ±1 to 2 miles inland and 400 or 500 



feet above the sea -level. 

 Buccinum glaciate (1| to 2 miles inland, 400 and 500 feet high). 



4. Prom the Moraine of a glacier in Deeva Bay. 

 Astarte borealis (var. semisulcata). 



compressa, Mont., var. striata. 



Mya truncata, var. Uddevallensis. 



Specimens of Bones obtained by Mr. Lamont in Spitzbergen. 



1. Fragment of vertebra of Whale, rotten. Bell Sound. Half 



a mile from the sea. 100 feet above the sea. 



2. Fragment of bone. Half a mile from the sea at Bell Sound. 



100 feet above the sea. 



3. Cranium of a small DelpMnopterus leucas ("White Whale or 



Beluga). Bell Sound. 300 yards from the sea. 80 feet above 

 the sea. 



4. Anterior rib of a Whale. Bell Sound. 500 yards from the 



sea. 80 feet high. 



5. Small lumbar vertebra of Beluga (?) Bell Sound. Nearly 



buried at 70 feet above high-tide mark. 



6. Fragment of bone of Whale. Bell Sound. Buried in bank 



50 feet above the sea. 



7. Half of a caudal vertebra of Whale. Balama mysticetus (?) 



Bell Sound. A little above high-water mark. 



8. Caudal vertebra of Whale. Found among the boulders at 



high-water mark. Coloured ferruginous. 



9. Small cervical vertebra of Beluga ? 



10. Tibia and fibula of hind left leg of a Walrus. 



11. Large caudal vertebra of Whale. 



12. Part of lower jaw of Whale. Walter Thymen's Straits. Half 



a mile from the sea, and 40 feet above sea-level. 



Description of the Gravels from Spitzbergen collected by Mr. La- 

 mont. By J. Prestwich, Esq., F.G.S. 



1. Gravel from Bell Sound, 60 feet above high- water mark. 

 Grey gravel of small subangular fragments of dark-grey argillaceous 

 and quartzose slaty rocks, some portions calcareous, and a few frag- 

 ments of grey sandstone, mixed with a small proportion of earth. 

 None of the fragments are above two ounces in weight, the bulk 

 being of small size (seventy to the ounce). Amongst these suban- 

 gular fragments there are, however, a few small round pebbles of a 

 dark-grey limestone, and a few perfectly angular fragments of slate. 



There, are no shells, nor any characters on any of the fragments in 

 the gravel to indicate a beach-origin. The mass, in fact, looks much 



