140 Scientific Intelligence. 
with the limestone of that area, by way of the United States 
range of mountains. The coal-bearing beds that underlie the 
Carboniferous Limestones of Mel ille Island are absent in Grinnell 
Land, but they are represented by true marine Devonians, estab- 
lished 3 in the Polar area for the first time ras the determina- 
tion of the fossils by Mr. certs In America a vast area is 
covered by Cretaceous rocks. The lowest sicily the Dakot 
species occur in the Maiicbins beds of. Disco Island, in We est Great 
land, and a few of them in beds associated with the 30-feet coal 
seam discovered at Lady Franklin Sound by the late expedition. 
The warmer Eocene flora is entirely absent in the Arctic area, but 
the Dakota beds are represented by the “ Atane strata” of West 
Greenland, in which the leaves of dicotyledonous plants ss 
appear. Beneath it, in Greenland, is an older series of c 
rgen, and the newly discovered — of Lady Franklin Sound, 
the plants belong to climatal conditions 80° warmer than at 
present, the most northern localities Sinridng the coldest condi- 
tions. The common fir (Pinus abies) was discovered in the Grin- 
nell Land Miocene, as well as the birch, poplar and other trees, 
which doubtless extended across the polar area to Spitzbergen, 
where they also 
At the present time ‘the coasts = Grinnell Land and Greenland 
are steadily rising from the sea, beds of glacio-marine origin, with 
shells of the same species as are now living in Kennedy Channel, 
extending up the hillsides and valley slopes to a height of 1,000 
feet, and reaching a thickness of from 200 to 500 feet. These de- 
posits, which hav e much in common with the “ pees fi = 
a 
made up o 
snowfall, which, drifting to the beach, is meiivcibed 3 into ice where 
it meets the sea-water which splashes over it.—Proc. Geol. Soc., 
London, April, 1 
2. On the Podeorcbidigiod results of the recent Polar Eapedi- 
tion under Sir George Nares, K.C.B., F.R.S8. ; by Captéin H.W. 
