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Geological Society of Dublin'*, where the fossil in question is 

 stated to be of Silurian age, and is called an undescribed Bryozoan 

 zoophyte. 



In Mr. J. Lamont's " Notes about Spitzbergen in 1859 " f an 

 appendix on the specimens is given % 9 wherein is recorded the 

 occurrence of rounded fragments of grey compact limestone in 

 Ryke-Yse Islands, and of fragments of argillo -siliceous dark grey rock 

 at an island in Bell Sound, containing Fenestellas and corals. 



Mr. J. "W. Salter also contributed some remarks § on Mr. La- 

 mont's paper. The Fenestellidse from the island in Bell Sound, 

 mentioned by the latter, consist, according to Mr. Salter, of two 

 species of Fenestella, " one with very large meshes." From an un- 

 defined locality there is also recorded " a new genus, in all proba- 

 bility of the Fenestellidge, consisting of thick stems branching 

 regularly from opposite sides, the smaller branches also opposite, and 

 coalescing with their neighbours so as to form a quadrangular net- 

 work. But for this coalescence, it might be a gigantic Thamniscus 

 or IchihyorhacMs." The general facies of the fossils was thought 

 to be Carboniferous ; and the size of both the shells and Polyzoa Mr. 

 Salter considered to be remarkable, the latter being " larger than 

 the corresponding species in our own Mountain Limestone." Three 

 localities are represented, viz. Bell Sound at 400 feet above sea-level, 

 island in Bell Sound at 250 feet, and Black Point, south-east angle 

 of Spitzbergen. 



1861. The above remarks were contributed by Mr. Salter as an 

 appendix to Mr. Lamont's work, ' Seasons with the Sea-Horses,' &c. ||, 

 in almost identical words. 



1874 and 1875. In the < Neues Jahrbuch ' for 1874, Dr. F. Toula 

 gave a list of fossils % from Bell Sound and Axel Island, Spitzbergen, 

 which were described in detail in the ' Jahrbuch ' for the following 

 year (1875) under the title " Permo-Carbon-Fossilien von der West- 

 Kiiste von Spitzbergen " **. The Polyzoa described in this memoir 

 are the following ; and, as it is an important paper, I shall give a 

 few detailed notes on the species : — 



1. Fenestella, sp., allied to F. Geinitzii, D'Orb., and F. tenuifila, 

 Phill. ; the stems are thicker than the branches, and there are three 

 cells on each side the former within the space comprised by each 

 fenestrule or mesh. Dr. Toula thinks this may be new. 



2. Fenestella, sp., allied to F. retiformis, Schl., and F. carinata, 



M'Coy. 



* Vol. viii. p. 196. This and the foregoing papers by Prof. Haughton were 

 reprinted in the ' Manual and Instructions for the Arctic Expedition,' 1875, 

 pp. 442-550. 



t Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xvi. p. 428. 



\ Log. cit. p. 436. 



§ " Note on the Fossils from Spitzbergen," loc. cit. p. 439. 



|| London, 8vo, p. 307. 



% " Verzeicbniss der von ihm beschriebenen Versteinerungen aus Spitzbergen," 

 p. 964. ** Pp. 225-264, pis. 5-10. 



