368 MEEK, FOSSILS FROM KENNEDY CHANNEL. 



XLIX. — Fossils from the West Coast of Kennedy 

 Channel. By Prof F. B. Meek. 



[From Silliman's American Journal of Science and Arts, ser. 2, 

 vol. xl., 1865, pp. 31-34. See also Hayes's ''Open Polar 

 Sea," &c., 8vo., London, 1867, p. 341.] 



These were collected by Dr. I. I. Hayes at Cape Leidy, Cape 

 Frazer, and other points of the west coast of Kennedy Channel. 



1 . Zaphrentis Hayesii, Meek. 6. Strophodonta Beckii, Hall. 



2. Syriugopora, sp. 7. Rhynchonella, sp. 



3. Favosites, sp. 8, Coelospira concava. Hall. 



4. Strophomena rhomboidalis, 9. Spirifera, sp. 



Wahl. 10. Loxonema ? Kanei, Meek. 



5. Strophodonta Headleyana, 11. Orthoceras, sp. 



Hall? 12. Ill^nus, sp. 



Dr. Meek regards these as closely allied to species found in 

 the "Catskill Shaly Limestone"* of the ''Lower Helderberg" 

 group of the State of New York. 



L. — On the Miocene Flora of Nortk Greenland. By 

 Prof. Oswald Heer. Translated by Robert H. Scott. 



[From the Report of the Thirty-sixth Meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Not- 

 tingham in August 1866 ; Transactions of the Sections, 

 pp. 53-55; 1867.t] 



The Royal Dublin Society is in possession of a rich collection 

 of fossil plants, which have been brought from the Arctic regions 

 by Capt. Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock and Capt. Philip H. Colomb 

 at various times, and have been presented by those gentlemen to the 

 Museum of the Society. 1 am indebted to the kindness of Mr. 

 Robert H. Scott, Hon. Sec. of the Royal Geological Society of 

 Ireland, for a sight of these specimens, as the Royal Dublin Society 

 has been induced to entrust the whole collection to me for exami- 

 nation. Before 1 received these. Dr. J. D. Hooker had entrusted 

 to me specimens which had been presented to the museum at Kew 

 by Dr. Lyall and Dr. Walker. In this latter collection I dis- 

 covered seven determinable species, which are also to be found 

 among the specimens of the Dublin collection. In this I find 63 



* Upper Silurian ; the " Delthyris Shaly Limestone," Hall, Geol. Report, 

 p. 144 ; Mather, Geol. Report, p. 345 ; Bigsby, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 vol. xiv., p. 370, &c.— Editor. 



t Also in the " Journal of the Royal Dublin Society," vol. v. No. 36, 

 pp. 69-85, with rather more details and some notes by Captains Inglefield, 

 Colomb, and M'Clintock, and an extract from Giesecke's Journal. 



