50 Geological Society. 



water Formation at Binstead, near Ryde, in the Isle of Wight," by 

 S. P. Pratt, Esq. F.G.S. F.L.S. 



The author lately discovered, in the lower and marly beds of the 

 quarries of Binstead, in the Isle of Wight, and which belong to the 

 lower fresh- water formation, a tooth of an Anoplotherium, and two 

 teeth of the genus Palaeotherium, animals characteristic of strata of 

 the same age in the Paris basin. 



These remains were accompanied, not only by several other frag- 

 ments of the bones of Pachydermata (chiefly in a rolled and in- 

 jured state), but also by the jaw of a new species of Ruminantia, 

 apparently closely allied to the genus Moschus. From the oc- 

 currence of the latter fossil, the author infers that a race of ani- 

 mals existed at this geological epoch, whose habits required that 

 the surface of the earth should have been in a very different state 

 from that which it has been supposed to have presented, in con- 

 sequence of the frequent discovery of the remains of animals who 

 lived almost entirely in marshes. 



Dec. 1. A paper was read, entitled An Explanatory Sketch 

 of a Geological Map of Moravia, and the West of Hungary," by 

 Dr. A. Boue, For. Mem. G.S.&c. 



The author in presenting this Map to the Geological Society, 

 states that it has been made with the assistance of Messrs. Teubner, 

 Rittler, and Von Lill von Lilienbach ; and that with the latter 

 gentleman in particular he has recently worked out many details, 

 which it is hoped may rectify certain errors in the great Geological 

 Map of Germany, published by Schropp of Berlin. 



Moravia has been in part described by Andre, Von Albin Hein- 

 rich, Von Lill, Von Oeynhausen, and Beudant ; but the two lasc- 

 mentioned writers, it is stated, have not visited the country. 



This region is made up of the union of three principal chains 

 of hills, the Eastern or Bohmerwaldgebirge, the Sudeten or Silesian 

 mountains, and the Western Carpathians, the contact of the two 

 first of which is hidden by a red sandstone of the coal-measures, and 

 green, chalk marl. 



The hilly region called the Gesenke, consists of grauwacke, and 

 extends across Moravia to near the Bohemian range. The Gesenke 

 is separated from the Carpathians by the tertiary and alluvial val- 

 leys of the Upper Oder. 



The more ancient and longitudinal valleys, in Moravia, have a 

 general direction from W.S.W. to E.N.E. ; and are with some few 

 exceptions, cut through transversely by the present streams. 



In the part of Hungary and Gallicia indicated on this Map, the 

 rivers on the contrary flow for the most part in longitudinal valleys, 

 parallel to the Carpathians, as the Nitra, Gran, Vistula, and the 

 Waag, although the latter for a certain space runs through a trans- 

 versal rent in primary rocks. 



In the Western groups are numerous Scotch and Scandina- 

 vian minerals. Many of the oldest stratified rocks are crossed 

 by large dyke-like elliptic bodies, running from south-west to 

 north-east. The respective characters of the primary Sudeten 

 and Tatra mountains are then described. The grauwacke dis- 

 tricts 



