Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2012
The present part of this memoir contains descriptions of four additional specimens of Osmundites which have been obtained from various sources.
We are indebted to Dr G. Nathorst for the material of Osmundites spetsbergensis, Nathorst MS., which was first collected by Dr G. Nordenskiöld on the Spitzbergen Expedition of 1890 at Nordenskiöldsberg, and subsequently by Dr B. Högbom in 1910 at Van-Mijensberg, Spitzbergen.
Our thanks are also due to Dr A. Rothpletz, Director of the Geologisch-palaeontologische Staatssammlung, München, for kindly placing in our hands the type specimen of Osmundites Carnieri, Schuster, for investigation and redescription.
page 469 note * Part I., Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlv. part iii. pp. 759–780, pls. i.–vi., 1907. Part II., idem, vol. xlvi. part ii. pp. 213–232, pls. i.–iv., 1908. Part III., idem, vol. xlvi. part iii. pp. 651–667, 1909. Part IV., idem, vol. xlvii. part iii. pp. 455–477, 1910.
page 470 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlvi. pl. iv. fig. 23.
page 472 note * The vascular phenomena of the branching of the petiole in the Osmundaceæ is in course of investigation by one of the authors.
page 473 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlv., pl. vi. figs. 11 and 12, 1907.
page 473 note † Nathorst, l.c., p. 382.
page 474 note * Nathorst, l.c., p. 382.
page 476 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xlv. p. 772, pl. iv. fig. 23, 1907.
page 480 note * Specimens shown at figs. 1–11, 15, 21, 32 from Van-Mijensberg; those at figs. 12–14, 16–20, 22–31, 33 and 34 from Nordenskiöldsberg.
page 480 note † We beg to acknowledge our indebtedness to the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for a grant to defray the cost of the plates illustrating this part of our memoir on the Fossil Osmundaceæ.