Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The fossils of the volcanic Islands of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Helena, Madeira, Teneriffe, and Iceland, have a specialinterest, as giving dates relative to the supposed Atlantic Continent. The fossil land-shells of St. Helena and Madeira appear to belong to a period corresponding to the Crag-formation of England. The marine fossils of the Canaries, on the contrary, belong to a somewhat more ancient period.
page 392 note 1 “Hallbjarnarstada-Kamb” is the official way of spelling this locality, but the various authors referred to wrote more or less in Danish or old Icelandic; this will sufficiently explain the diversity in writing this name in the various works here quoted.—O. A. L. M.
page 393 note 1 Wood, 1848, p. 9, tab. 1, fig. 11.
page 393 note 2 Quoted in the Catalogue as Mörch-Paykull's List.
page 396 note 1 Not the Fusus Olavii, Beck, in Eichwald Urwelt Rnsslands, 1842, p. 141.