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OF this admirable repertory of memoirs on the geology of the Austrian Dominions, the last two numbers for 1869 have lately reached us. This publication contains the cream of the communications made by members of the Imperial Geological Institution, to which the carrying out of the survey of that great and varied tract of country subject to the Austrian sovereign is entrusted; it always includes many papers of great importance to the student of general geology, and the portions now before us present no falling off in this respect. Of strictly geological papers Prof. D. Stur is the principal contributor. He describes the occurrence of brown coal in the district of Budafa, in Hungary; reports at considerable length on the results of the geological survey of the environs of Schmollnitz and Gollnitz, also in Hungary; and contributes two other papers of more strictly local interest; but the most important of all the geological memoirs is F. von Hauer's notice of the geology of the Western Carpathians, a most interesting district in every respect. Dr. M. Neumayr's contributions to the knowledge of indigenous fossil faunæ contain descriptions of the univalve shells of the fresh-water marls of Dalmatia, and of the Congerian strata of Croatia and Western Sclavonia; the species, many of which are new, are well represented on four plates. Five plates are also devoted to the illustration of another palæontological paper, which will probably possess the most interest of all for extra-Austrian geologists-namely, Dr. E. von Mojsisovics's memoir on the Cephalopod-fauna of the Alpine Muschelkalk, some of the species included in which are remarkable for their wide geographical distribution, especially the characteristic species of the zone (Arcestes or Ammonites Studeri), which ranges to the Himalayas in one direction, and to Spitzbergen in another.
Jahrbuch der K.-K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt.
Band XIX. Nos. 3 and 4. 1869.
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Jahrbuch der K-K Geologischen Reichsanstalt. Nature 2, 163 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002163a0
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