30 Reviews — G. Lindstroms Spitzbergen Fossils, 



The relationship that some of these fossils have with Triassic 

 species found in the Eastern Alps, in the Himalaya, in New Zealand, 

 New Caledonia, and California, is noticed by the author, also the 

 wide- spread occurrence of this formation of Secondary age. 



II. The Jurassic Fossils. — Most of these have been found in a 

 usually grey sandstone and limestone, occurring at several points on 

 the coast of the Isfjord. The greatest number were collected in 1861 

 by Prof. Blomstrand at Advent Bay. The same kind of fossils in a 

 similar sandstone and in shale were found at Green Harbour and 

 Kyss-stugan, also on the east side of Advent Bay, by Loven, Nor- 

 denskiold, and Blomstrand. Also in 1864 Nordenskiold got a har- 

 vest from a thin black laminated limestone at Sassen Bay, and in 

 a hard shal}'^ limestone, weathering reddish brown, at Cape Agardh in 

 the Storfjord : Ichthyodorulites ; Serpula; Ammonites triplicatus/ Sow. ; 

 Belemnites ; Dentalium ; Panojocea ; Tellina ; Cyiherea ; Cyprina incon- 

 spicua, sp. nov. ; Cardium concinnum, Von Buch ; Solenomya Torelli, sp. 

 nov. ; Nncula ; Leda nuda, Keyserling ; Inoceramus revelatus, Keyserl. ; 

 Aucella mosquensis, Von Buch, var. ; Pecten demissus, Bean ; P. validus, 

 sp. nov. ; Oplditra Gumaellii, sp. nov. 



The close alliance of the Triassic fossils of Spitzbergen with those 

 of Petschora Land and of Eussia, and their correspondence with the 

 Lower (Great) Oolite of Western Europe, is especially noted by the 

 author. 



Some obscure plant-remains occur in the above mentioned Jurassic 

 beds ; and besides these some Miocene Plants {Domheyojysis aceroides 

 and Sequoia Langsdorfii) are found at the same places, apparently 

 mixed with the Jurassic beds, but probably either really overlying 

 the latter, or mingled with them by some disturbance. 



This interesting notice of the Secondary Fossils of Spitzbergen 

 adds greatly to our knowledge of that interesting outlier of the Eu- 

 ropean Continent. Carboniferous fossils are known to abound in 

 that Island ; and one block, at least, of Permian limestone has been 

 found on the coast, but it was either a drifted fragment, or was 

 deriA^ed from the ballast of some wrecked whaler. 



The Carboniferous rocks lie on unfossiliferous schists and conglo- 

 merates ; these on unfossiliferous slates, quartzites, and marble ; 

 these on a lower series of slates, etc., and these on gneiss and granite. 

 Thus, as Murchison has suggested, all the Palaeozoic formations, from 

 the Laurentian upwards, may be present there. The coal of Spitz- 

 bergen is of Tertiary age. 



See also Mr. Lament's paper on Spitzbergen in the Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. xvi; Nordenskiold's memoir in the Trans. Koy. Swedish 

 Acad. 1866 ; Siluria, 4th. ed. p. 543.— T. E. J. 



1 A fragment of Ammonite was collected by Mr. Lamont at Bell Sound, see Journ. 

 Geol. Soc. vol. xvi. p. xii. and 436. 



