HEER ON THE CRETACEOUS FLORA OF GREENLAND. 389 



tlicsc rolled specimens of Tree-ferns from the Disco shore should 

 be registered as "Cretaceous," having been derived from the 

 Cretaceous Formation, whether in the immediate neighbourhood 

 or at a distance. Atanekerdluk, with its Cretaceous, underlying 

 Tertiary, strata, is due north on the other side of the Waigat. — 

 Editor. 



4. — Fossil Insects from the Cretaceous Strata of Green- 

 land. From Prof. O. Heer's Memoir on the Cretaceous 

 Flora of Greenland, K. Sv. Vet. Ak, Ilandl., vol. xii., No. 6, 

 p. 91, 92, 120. 1874. 



Bhynchophora. 



Archiorhynchus angusticollis, Heer. Kome. 

 Curculionites cretaceus, Heer. Kome, with leaves of Pinus 

 Crameri. 



Myriopod. 



Julopsis cretaceus, Heer. Lower Atanekerdluk. 



LIV. — Account of an Expedition to Greenland in th 

 Year 1870. By Prof. A. E. Nordenskiold, Foreign 

 Correspondent Geol. Soc. Lond., (&c. &;c. &c. 



[Reprinted, with Permission, from the '^ Geological Magazine," 

 vol. ix., 1872.] 



Part I. ("Geol. Mag.," vol. ix., p. 289, &c.) 



After explaining the reasons for the Expedition, and enume- 

 rating the several voyages of discovery to East Greenland, from 

 1579 to 1869, with some observations on the present state of the 

 Groenlanders, Prof. Nordenskiold proceeds to state : — 



We took up our night-quarter, the 12th of July, at Manermiut, 

 the 13th at Kangaitsiak, the 14tli, 15th, and 16th on islands in 

 Auleitsivikfjord. On the I7th we at length arrived at tlie 

 northern side of the glacier which shoots out from the inland ice, 

 and occupies the bottom of the northern arm of Auleitsivikfjord, 

 that is to say, the spot selected as the starting-point for our 

 journey over the ice. 



The tract through which we passed, like the whole west coast 

 of Greenland south of the basalt region, bears a strong resem- 

 blance to the Scandinavian peninsula, and that resemblance is not 

 the result of any accident, but of a similar geological formation, and 

 a similar geological history. The surface of Greenland, like that 

 of Scandinavia, is for the most part occupied by stratified crystal- 

 line rock (gneiss, hornblende-schist, hornblende-gneiss, mica-schist, 

 etc.), crossed by dykes and veins of granite, which even bear 

 the same peculiar minerals which distinguish the Scandinavian 

 grauitc-veius ; and, as in the case of our mountains, the mountains 



