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the green portion of the spectrum, in zodiacal and auroral light, 

 as established by Respighi.* 



In connexion with this subject, reference should be made to 

 the discovery by Eeichenbach some years since of the presence of 

 nickel in soils. From the Lahisberg in Austria, a conical hill 

 some 300 to 400 metres in height, and covered to the summit 

 with beech-trees, he took samples of soil from the thick under- 

 wood, and found therein traces of nickel and cobalt. Other 

 specimens from the Haindelberg, Kallenberg, and Dreymarck- 

 steinberg, adjacent hills, yielded the same results, and that from 

 the Marchfeld plain also revealed traces of nickel. These hills 

 consist of beds of sandstone and limestone, and are quite free from 

 metallic veins. It has already been suggested that impoverished 

 soils may have their fertilising powers renewed by the precipita- 

 tion of cosmical matter containing phosphorus. 



LVI. — Abstract of " Geological Notes on the Noursoak 

 Peninsula, Disco Island, and the Country in the 

 Vicinity of Disco Bay, Greenland, by Dr. Eobert 

 Brown, F.L.S., F.RG.S., etc." "Transact. Geological 

 Soc. of Glasgow," vol. v., 1875. By Permission. 



I. — Introduction. 



The author prefaces these notes on the geology of Mid-Green- 

 land,f with a succinct account of the history of geological dis- 

 covery in Greenland ; namely, (1.), by Sir C. L, Giesecke, early in 

 this century, who collected largely, and left many published and 

 MS. observations ; (2.), Dr. Pingel,t 1828 ; (3.), Dr. H. Rink, § 



* Respighi, Compt. Bend., Ixxiv. 514. — The green ray is that known as 

 1241 in Kirchhoff's scale ; and near it is another of less brilliancy, 1826 in 

 the same scale. 



f Greenland is divided by the Danish Government, who maintain a mono- 

 poly of the trade up to 73° N. lat., into the North and South Inspectorates ; 

 the former embracing all the coast-line north of lat. 66°, the latter all south 

 of that parallel. The region Dr. Brown is describing may be termed, Middle 

 Greenland, he says, as it lies between the parallels of 68° 30' and 71° N. 

 lat. 



X With Capt. Graah. See " Undersogelses-Eeise til Ostkysten af Gronland 

 efter Kongl. Befaling udfort i Aarene, 1828-31, 1832." Translated into 

 English by G. G. Macdougall, 1837. See also " Proceed. Geol. Soc. London," 

 vol. ii. p. 208. 



§ « Om den geographiske Beskaffenhed af de danske Handels-distrikter i 

 Nordgronland" : Udsigt over Nordgronlands Geognosie (Det Kongl. danske 

 Vidensk. Selskab. Sk., 3 Bind, 1853, p. 71). In all, Dr. Rink resided 22 

 summers and 16 winters in Greenland. Also " Journal of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society," vol. xxiii. and vol. xxviii. ; " Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift " 

 (3rd series), 1852, &c. ; "Gronland geographisk og statistisk beskrevet," 

 2 vols. ; and " Eskimoiske Eventyr og Sagn oversatte efter de Infodte for- 

 tajlleres Opskrifter og Meddelelser." 



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