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more like the smaller fragments of a moraine. None of the fragments, 

 however, are scratched or striated. 



2. Gravel from Bell Sound, 20 feet above high-water. Dark- 

 coloured grit, clean and uniform in texture, consisting of small 

 subangular fragments of a black hornblende-slate (like that of No. 4) 

 about the size of cress-seed, with a very few flattish pebbles of the 

 size of peas, and still fewer rounded pebbles of the size of marbles. 

 There are no fragments of shells. 



3. Gravel from an island in Bell Sound, a little above high-water. 

 Small greyish-green gravel of flat angular fragments of greenish 

 mica-slate, with a few pieces of quartz. None of the fragments are 

 an ounce in weight. The bulk consists of pieces of about thirty to 

 the ounce. No matrix of any sort. No fragments of shells. This 

 gravel has the appearance of rock- debris in situ. 



4. Gravel from Bell Sound, half-way between high- and low- water. 

 Ordinary clean and well-worn small beach-shingle, the smaller 

 fragments being more or less subangular, and the larger ones more 

 or less rounded: no fragments above three-quarters of an ounce 

 in weight ; and the bulk 117 to the ounce. It is composed mostly 

 of compact black hornblende-slate (like that of No. 2), compact grey 

 sandstone, and some grey limestone and a very little quartz. There 

 are no shells, nor scratched pebbles. It is much like the shingle of 

 parts of our own coast. 



5. Gravel from Bell Sound, low-water anchorage. Subangular 

 small fragments of micaceous slates, with a few flat angular frag- 

 ments of limestone. Not one well-rounded pebble ; few even of the 

 fragments are much worn. There are no shells. This looks much 

 like the small debris in an old slate-quarry. 



Note on the Fossils from Spitzbergen. 

 By J. W. Salter, Esq., F.G.S. 



The specimens of fossils brought by Mr. Lamont are chiefly from 

 three localities, viz. : — 



1. Bell Sound (at 400 feet above the sea-level), western side of 

 the island ; 



2. Island in Bell Sound (at 200 feet above the sea, and 350 yards 

 from the shore) ; and 



3. Black Point, near the S.E. angle of Spitsbergen, close to which 

 are the Thousand Isles. 



From Bell Sound only a few Bpecies were collected ; and these are 



the same as those from the small island in the same Sound. One is 

 a large Pro</ncins, which I cannot identity completely with any Bri- 

 tish species. It may be a large variety of one of our common shells, 



/'. si iiiin lini/iifus, or even a form of /'. costttttis. In all) Case it US 



of a Carboniferous type. 



The specimens from the island in Bell Sound are much more 

 numerous; and in a grey limestone we have — 



1. Aihyris or Spvrifer, a large smooth species, nearly :<> inches 



