The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . it must not beregarded as an oceanic group. The faunas hitherto discoveredappeared to be Jurassic only, and mainly Oxfordian : but the upper-most plant-bed involved in the basalt might possibly be of anotherperiod. At all events he did not feel satisfied as to the Jurassicage of any portion of the basalt, notwithstanding the fact that afragment of Amrnomtes Lamherti had been found in basaltic paper did not appear to throw much light on the sections alreadyexhibited, and the speaker expressed surprise, considering the lengthof
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . it must not beregarded as an oceanic group. The faunas hitherto discoveredappeared to be Jurassic only, and mainly Oxfordian : but the upper-most plant-bed involved in the basalt might possibly be of anotherperiod. At all events he did not feel satisfied as to the Jurassicage of any portion of the basalt, notwithstanding the fact that afragment of Amrnomtes Lamherti had been found in basaltic paper did not appear to throw much light on the sections alreadyexhibited, and the speaker expressed surprise, considering the lengthof time occupied by the Expedition, that so few specimens had beenfound in situ, but he did not suppose that for this Dr. Koettlitz wasin any way responsible. Mr. LoBLET thought that Dr. Koettlitz, notwithstanding Arcticclimatal conditions and other verv serious obstacles, had accom-plished geological work which was among the most important ofthe results achieved by the Expedition. Mr. E. J. Gaewood and Prof. Waits also spoke, and 3Ir. E. Quart. 2.
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