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Of other fossils it was shown that more occurred in the G-ault than in the 
Neocomian, though the difference is not so great as in the case of the 
Ammonites. 
It was added that Professor Eenevier has shown that 23 Blackdown 
species occur in one locality (Cheville) in the middle Gault of the Alps, 
and 10 in the Lower Gault of the same locality: while out of a total of 239 
species in the L. and M. Gault of Cheville, only 9 occur in the Swiss 
" Aptien," or top "beds of the Neocomian. 
VI. 
Notes on some Melville Island Flowers, 
By A. E. Hudd. 
Read before the Botanical Section, December 19, 1872. 
Melville Island, the largest of the group now known as the "Parry Islands," 
is situated between the 74th and 77th parallel of N. latitude, and between 
105° and 115° 30' west longtitude. "With the exception of Spitsbergen 
and the northern portion of the continent of Greenland, these islands, were 
until comparatively recent voyages, the nearest land known to exist in the 
direction of the North Pole. A short account of some of their natural 
productions may therefore be of interest, especially as I am enabled this 
evening to exhibit a small collection of plants from Melville Island, which 
were collected rather more than fifty years since, by an officer who accom- 
panied Captain Parry in his celebrated voyages of discovery in the " Arctic 
Regions." ''Winter Harbour," a bay on the South coast of Melville 
Island, was, as its name implies, the locality chosen by Parry and other 
Arctic explorers, for passing the long, dreary, sunless winters of these 
frigid climes. It was probably in the immediate vicinity of this harbour 
that most of my botanical specimens were gathered ; this portion of the 
island being protected from the north by a range of hills. 
A few remarks on the geological features of the island may be acceptable 
before considering its botanical productions The Rev. S. Haughton, of 
Dublin, in the appendix to McClintock's " Voyage of the Fox," says: 
" There is abundant evidence to show that the Arctic Archipelago was 
submerged at comparatively recent geological periods, many species of 
shells, etc., now living in the neighbouring seas being found, at considerable 
