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(vi) Bock of Loom Island in Kostin Schar. 



(23 — July 23rd.) The specimen bears a general resemblance to 

 Nos. 2, 3 & 4, but it is a little more compact and darker coloured. 

 It exhibits a slight fissility, but whether this be a true cleavage is 

 doubtful. Some very faint markings on the surface may possibly 

 be traces of an organism (? vegetable). 



(vii) South Gooseland, Novaya Zemlya, vicinity of 

 Belootcha Bay. 



(1 — July 24th.) A darkish, rather more carbonaceous rock than 

 the last one, rudely fissile, as one may judge from the form of the 

 specimen, which evidently was a loose flake. 



(15 — same date.) Another natural flake of a rock generally similar 

 to the last, but darker in colour and rather more fine-grained. 



(30 — same date.) A similar rock, but still darker and more fine- 

 grained. 



These rocks (including 23) are not unlike some of the flaky or 

 imperfectly slaty Palaeozoic muds tones. 



The collection indicates the presence of Archaean, Palaeozoic 

 (later and possibly earlier), and some Mesozoic rocks in the region 

 visited by Col. Feilden. The sandstone with plant-remains appears 

 to be identical with that from erratics in Kolguev Island. The 

 fossiliferous Palaeozoic limestone (though unfortunately its organisms 

 are in worse preservation) bears a general resemblance to some of 

 the specimens from that island, and the same may be said of certain 

 of the crystalline rocks of Archaean aspect. Thus the Kolguev 

 erratics may have come from JSTovaya Zemlya, including the ad- 

 jacent islands. 



Discussion. 



The President congratulated the Author on the very interesting 

 facts which he had brought before the Society. His observations 

 made on the spot were a warning to those of us in the South who were 

 inclined to theorize about an universal ice-sheet. The Author's 

 observations seemed to agree in a remarkable manner with those 

 made by the Canadian geologists, and he would call upon Sir W. 

 Dawson for an expression of his views and of those formed by the 

 Canadian Surveyors. 



Sir William Dawson remarked that, as a Canadian, he had 

 listened with especial pleasure to the interesting paper of Col. Feilden, 

 since the raised beaches with marine shells which had been described 

 were very similar to those on the Lower St. Lawrence, as were 

 also the fossiliferous boulder-clays and their contained stones with 

 bases of acorn-shells and patches of polyzoa. The effects of floating 

 ice as described by Col. Feilden were also similar to those observed 

 in the estuary of the St. Lawrence and on the coasts of Labrador and 



