66 Scientific Intelligence. 
enskidld in the January and February numbers of the Geological 
Magazine, edited by H. Woodward, I.R.S.—The glacial scratches 
in the fiords opening into Bell Sound appear to indicate that the 
west coast of Spitzbergen extended at least to the series of islands 
and rocks by which the land is now environed ; and that “ during 
the Glacial period that coast was the west coast, not merely of 
an island, but of a considerable Arctic continent, which toward the 
south was connected with Scandinavia and toward the east with 
Continental Siberia.” These words are italicized. 
The rocks of the Carboniferous age include a lower and au 
upper Subcarboniferous limestone, and the true Carboniferous for 
mation. 
Sphenopteris Schimperi Gapp., Lepidodendron Veltheimianum 
St., L. commutatum Sch., L. Carnehgyianum H. ijkianum 
a. ridophyllum Roemeri Knorria imbricuta St., 
low, of (1) dolomite; (2) red and white sandstone; (3) Cyathe : 
phyllum limestone, containing fossil corals, Brachiopods, Crinoe — 
4 species of polyp corals, 2 of Crinoids, 7 of Bryozoans, 34 of 
rachiopods, 11 of Lamellibranchs, 2 of Gasteropods, 2 os 
n 
playi Vern., P. horridus Sow., Strophalosia lamellosa Gein. 
us is very abundant and occurs of great size (86 mm. by f 
jan. a 
horrid 
nearly twice as large as is known from the Permian. The be 
contain also the Silurian species Rhynchonella pleurodon Sows — 
ut no Orthis; the Russian Subcarboniferous species Spirif@ — 
; Pa bisuleatus var. Sarana, Terebratula fusiform — 
Productus Humboldti, Chonetes variolaris ; and the Carbonifer — 
incrassatus. 
