3.90 Scientific Intelligence. — Geology. 



the Botanic Garden at Vienna, fragments of the Mastodon an- 

 g^ustidcns, and also of the Anthracotherium. M. Fitzinger has 

 described and figured them in a pamphlet lately pubhshed. An 

 imder jaw of the anthracotherium has been found in the lignite 

 or brown coal of Schauerleithen, near Neustadt, in the vicinity 

 of Vienna, which hgnite lies in the blue marl. It is also worthy 

 of remark, that such bones are also found in the coarse shelly 

 tertiary limestone, under the blue marl ; so that, judging from the 

 bones alone, we would be disposed to consider both as belongs 

 ing to the same formation, — an opinion which cannot be enter- 

 tained. 



18. Von BucJCs Observations and Speculations in regard to 

 the Alps. — Von Buch, during last summer, visited the Bavarian 

 Alps and the Suabian Alps or Jura, and seems disposed to con- 

 sider the alpine li^nestone ridge as recent, probably partly Ju- 

 rassic and partly chalk. The same distinguished geologist read 

 to the Academy of Munich a paper on the Hippurites found at 

 Reichenhall ; and, in PoggendorfF's Annals for 1827, he has an 



, interesting memoir on the boulders of granite, &c. spread over 

 the Jura and neighbouring countries, in which he maintains 

 they have reached their present situations at the time of the 

 rising from below of the primitive mountains, which he consi- 

 ders newer than the tertiary. It is worthy of notice, that De 

 Luc of Geneva published at the same time (May last) a simi- 

 lar memoir in the Memoirs of the Soc. de Phys. de Geneva, 

 vol. ii. 1827, in which he states, as his opinion, that the Alps 

 were formed after the tertiary rocks, and that the boulders were 

 dispersed by that great rising from below of the land. 



19. Boues Memoir on European Formations, and their 

 probable Origin. — One of the most interesting memoirs lately 

 published, is that whose title we have just given. It appeared 

 in the Journal of Leonhard for July 1827. Unfortunately 

 the promised map has not been published. 



20. Dr BouS on Secondary Rocks. — Dr Boue, during a vi- 

 sit to Solothurn, saw, along with Professor Huggy, the shell 

 limestone (muschel kalkstein) forming protuberances under the 

 Jura limestone, and the rauchvvacke, or porous magnesian lime- 

 stone, with cuneiform masses of gypsum. Above these he 

 found the following arrangement : — lias and its marl ; the sand 



