IHE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PEOOEEDINGS 



or 

 THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NOTEMBEB 9, 1870. 



Lieut. Reginald Clare Hart, R.E., Brompton Barracks, Chatham ; 

 Lieut. James Frederick Lewis, R.E., Brompton Barracks, Chatham ; 

 and M. F. Maury, Jun., Esq., 1300 Main Street, Eichmond, Vir- 

 ginia, U.S., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the CARBoifiFEKous Flora of Bear Islanb (lat. 74° 30' N.). 

 By Professor Oswald Heer, F.M.G.S.* 



[Abstract.] 

 The author described the sequence of the strata supposed to belong 

 to the Carboniferous and Devonian series in Bear Island, and indi- 

 cated that the plant-bearing beds occurred immediately below those 

 which, from their fossil contents, were to be referred to the Moun- 

 tain Limestone. He enumerated eighteen species of plants, and 

 stated that these indicated a close approximation of the flora to 

 those of TaUowbridge and Kiltorkan in Ireland, the greywacke of 

 the Vosges and the southern Black Forest, and the Verneuilii-shales 

 of Aix and St. John's, New Brunswick. These concordant floras he 

 considered to mark a peculiar set of beds, which he proposed to 

 denominate the " Ursa-stage." The author remarked that the flora 

 of Bear Island has nothing to do with any Devonian flora, and that 

 consequently it and the other floras, which he regards as contempo- 

 raneous, must be referred to the Lower Carboniferous. Hence he 

 argued that the hme of separation between the Carboniferous and 



* The publication of this paper is deferred. 

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