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and de Geer collected in Spitsbergen a Fusulina, which was 

 subsequently determined as F. cylindrica by Mr A. Goes ; ^ 

 it was also collected in the Bear Island in 1898, and made 

 use of as a zonal fossil by Mr J. Gunnar Anderson in his 

 paper on the geology of that island.^ On the other hand, 

 according to Professor Tschernyschew, to whom Mr Anderson's 

 specimens were submitted, this Bear Island Fusulina is more 

 closely allied to F. montipara (Ehrenberg).^ 



The Prince Charles Foreland form differs from the common 

 Eussian one, as delineated by Fischer, in being slightly more 

 swollen, that is, it bulges more in the median region, and 

 tapers more rapidly towards the apices ; in this respect it 

 is very similar to the more inflated specimens figured by Mr 

 Goes (loc. cit., p. 35). As an appreciable range of variation 

 appears to obtain in the Arctic species, the few specimens at 

 hand cannot be considered sufficiently representative to 

 enable one to establish its true affinities ; all that can be 

 said at present is that the Prince Charles Foreland Fusulina 

 is probably identical with that found in Spitsbergen and the 

 Bear Island. 



Grey Bryozoa Limestone" (No. III.). 



VEKMES. 



Sjpirorhis^ sp. indet. 



The casts of two specimens of Spirorhis (2 mm. in 

 diameter) were found attached to the weathered surface of 

 the limestone. They are very similar to the flat, um- 

 bilicated form described as S. permianus by King.* 



1 "Om Fusulina cylindrica Fischer fran Spetsbergen, " Ofvers. Vet. Akacl. 

 Forhandl., 1883, No. 8, pp. 29-35. 



2 Bull. Geol. Inst , Upsala, 1899, No. 8. 



^ See Appendix to Mr Anderson's work ; and Professor Tschernyschew's 

 monograph of the Russian Brachiopoda, p. 688. Also, " Nyare litteratnr om 

 Beeren Eilands geologi," by J. Gunnar Anderson, Geol. Foren. Forhandl., 

 No. 207, 1901. I 



^ Permian Fossils of England, plate vi. figs. 12, 13. 



