OLAF HOLTEDAHL. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



"Die devonischen Brachiopoden von Ellesmereland". Finally a paper by 

 another German palaeontologist Stephan Loewe: "Die devonischen Ko- 

 rallen von Ellesmereland" (same report, No. 30) appeared, printed as 

 recently as October 1913. 



Concerning the lower series of south-western Ellesmereland, nothing 

 has been published since Schei's report. A contribution on the Cam- 

 brian and Ordovician beds and fossils of Bache Peninsula to the N.E of 

 EUesmere Land was issued by the present writer a year ago, and published 

 in the early part of 1913 as No. 28 of the "Report", but this makes no 

 mention of the older palaeozoic beds of the south-western corner. 



In the spring of 1913 I was asked by the curator of the palseonto- 

 logical collections of the University of Christiania, Professor Kijer, who 

 has been too much pressed by other work to be able to find time for 

 a further study of the Ellesmereland material, to set to work on the 

 fossils from the lower series of the Goose Fjord I'egion. 



The chief purpose of the present small contribution is a palseonto- 

 logical study of the fauna collected by Schei in series B, which is the 

 only one of A, B, and C, found by Schei to contain any considerable 

 amount of fossils, though even this series is poor compared with the 

 series D. Nearly all of the species of B are found in only one or very 

 few specimens — often fragmentary — a fact that has made the detailed 

 idenfications difficult and often impossible. 



In addition to this work I shall also briefly summarise what we 

 know about the older series of this south-western region. I have studied 

 the few and fragmentary fossils, that unfortunately do not provide us 

 with any great enlightenment. 



Series A. 



The lowest part of the sedimentary series of southern Ellesmereland, 

 resting on the archaean granite, is beautifully exposed in the Harbour 

 Fjord, as can be seen on plate I. 



Schei writes that at Harbour Fjord, corresponding to the older 

 (Cambrian and Ordovician) beds of Bache Peninsula: "We have a strongly 

 developed series of limestone conglomerates with marly shales and pure 

 limestones, the whole having a thickness of 1300 to 1600 feet. These cong- 

 lomerates rest upon their lammse of quartz sandstone, and this again is 

 immediately underlain by the gneissic granite. On the other hand, the lime- 

 stone conglomerate in question is overlain by a succession of thick beds, not 

 less than 2000 feet in depth, of close-grained, hard, impure limestones, of a 



