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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
An important paper on the reputed occurrence of fossil plant-stems in gneiss of Carboniferous age at Guttannen, Switzerland, by Messrs. E. v. Fellenberg & C. Schmidt, for a copy of which I am indebted to the courtesy of the authors, closes, if their view be adopted, a comedy of errors. On this account a brief outline of the story may be of service; for it reduces this supposed relic of Palæozoic forests to a lusus naturæ, and, in any case, once more illustrates the truth of the saying, “we are all fallible mortals.”
page 215 note 2 Fellenberg, E. v. & Schmidt, C., “Neuere Untersuchungen über den sogen. Stamm im Gneisse von Guttannen”: Separat-Abdruck aus den Mitt. der Naturfors. Gesell. in Bern, Jahrgang 1898.Google Scholar
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page 216 note 2 Beiträge zur geol. Karte der Schweiz, Lief. xxiv (1888), pt. 4, p. 161.Google Scholar
page 216 note 3 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlvi, p. 238.Google Scholar
page 217 note 1 About a month later I visited Vernayaz to look once more at the well-known Carboniferous infold, parts of which sometimes curiously resemble crystalline rocks; this time examining it as far as the Tête Noire.
page 217 note 2 This conclusion and the reasons are fully stated in a paper (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlviii, p. 390).Google Scholar
page 217 note 3 Beiträge, ut supra, pp. 164–8.Google Scholar
page 217 note 4 Ut supra, p. 395.
page 217 note 5 On another day we spent a little time at Guttannen.
page 218 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 164.
page 219 note 1 Near Guttannen they term it Seritische Phyllite, an inappropriate name, as I understand Phyllite.