Additional Notes on Rocks and Fossils from Franz Josef Land

Abstract

In our previous notes an account was given of the rocks and fossils which had been collected by Dr. Kœttlitz and sent home in 1896. Another large series was brought back by the same gentleman on the return of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition in 1897. These specimens have been examined, and it is satisfactory to have to report that they confirm our previous conclusions, necessitating no modification of our previous notes, except as regards some of the altitudes at which the specimens were obtained; these, however, do not alter the relative positions of the beds. At the same time, there are some additional facts which it is desirable to place on record. The corrected measurements of altitudes are given by Dr. Kœttlitz on a preceding page (p.636), and these, it will be seen, alter materially the position of the beds at Cape Gertrude as given in our section. There are two errors on p.503 of our previous paper which we desire to correct. On line 4 the 100 feet of basalt refers only to what is seen in the cliff-section, and on line 9 ‘highest’ should have been printed ‘lowest,’ which will be found to agree with the section and the measurement that we then had. I. Rocks. A very large number of rock-specimens have been examined, but as these belong, for the most part, to varieties already described in our former paper, it will be unnecessary to refer to them at any length in these general notes. The common type