IO 
J. G. ANDERSSON, 
(Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
Fox Bay. (Compare Admiralty Chart [1123].) Round the entrance from the 
broad open bay to the harbour the dip of the strata is 6 — 8° S. 30° W. At the 
east side of the harbour where the fossiliferous sandstone is traversed by diabase- 
dikes (see p. ii) the bedding is almost horizontal, with a very gentle dip SW. 
In the small bay to the north side of West Head the strata dip 10^ S. The rock 
is here thin-bedded micaceous sandstone turning into dark slate. The sandstone 
exhibits beautiful current-bedding, and on the bedding-planes were noticed numer- 
ous, 3 — 4 cm. broad tracks of some animal (Fig. 5). Upon this slaty sandstone 
rests a coarse-grained, thick-bedded sandstone not unlike the coarse sandstone that 
is described in the following from Stephens Peak. 
Port Stephens. At the narrow entrance 
to this large bay the dip is about 8 — 10° N. 
In Cape Meredith the sandstone seems to be 
nearly horizontal, though there is probably a slow 
N. dip. (See p. 13.) Round Stephens Peak 
I noticed a lo” N. 25° W. dip of the sand- 
stone, that is here partly yellow, partly reddish 
brown and very coarse-grained with small quartz- 
pebbles. 
No fossils were found in the mighty sandstone-series round Port Stephens, so it 
cannot be proved that it belongs to the Devonian sandstone-formation of Port Louis 
and Fox Bay. In Cape Meredith the Archæan basement of the sandstone is exposed, 
and for that reason it may be permitted to suppose that the sandstone round Port 
Stephens (including Cape Meredith) forms the older part of a sandstone-series that 
in other places is fossiliferous. 
Fig. 5 , Track cf sotne a7timal. 
Devonian sandstone. Fox Bay. 
Fossils were collected in the sandstone by Darwin and myself at Port Louis, 
by the Challenger-expedition at Macbride’s Head (N. of Berkeley Sound) and by 
me at Fox Bay. In all these three localities about the same collection of some few 
species has been found. The material collected by me is not yet definitely worked 
out. It was at first sent to Professor Kayser in Marburg, but was afterwards 
according to his proposal handed over to Dr. Drevermann in Frankfurt am 
Main, who has promised to publish a report on it. In the meantime Prof. Kayse,R 
has sent me a note stating the age of the fauna. He writes: 
»Das ganze, so umfängliche Material wird kaum mehr als ein Dutzend Species 
enthalten, die sich immer wiederholen. Auch zwischen den verschiedenen Fund- 
punkten — Fox Bay und Port Louis — sind keinerlei Unterschiede wahrzunehmen: 
es sind immer wieder dieselben wenigen Arten, die oft in massenhafter Anhäufung 
den Sandstein erfüllen. 
