On a Collection of Fossil Plants from the Falkland Islands

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In May, 1922, I received from Dr. H. A. Baker, F.G.S., a collection of Permo-Carboniferous plants from the Falkland Islands which, with the consent of the Colonial Office, was entrusted to me for examination and description. At a later date additional specimens were received, some of which, although unfortunately too imperfectly preserved to be determined, were from rocks classed as Devono-Carboniferous. The Permo-Carboniferous material was collected on George Island and Speedwell Island off the southern extremity of East Falkland, also at North Arm, Bay of Harbours, near the southern extremity of East Falkland; while others were found at Cygnet Harbour and Egg Harbour on the western coast of Lafonia (the southern peninsula of East Falkland), and at Dos Lomas on the north-western coast. In the examination of the fossils I have been assisted by Mr. John Walton, of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is responsible for the description and determination of the fossil wood.—[A.C. S.] Subsequent to Charles Darwin's visits to the Falkland Islands little attention was paid to their geology, until the Archipelago was visited in 1901–1902 by Prof. J. G. Andersson and other members of the Swedish South Polar Expedition. The results then obtained were considerably extended by a second Swedish Expedition in 1907–1908, under the direction of Dr. C. Skottes-berg. Dr. T. G. Halle, of Stockholm, who was a member of that expedition, contributed to the Bulletin of the Geological Institute of the University of Uppsala, in 1911, a very valuable account of the geological structure and