.Scienti/k ItUellig^nce, — Geolo^. 191 



as presidents ; and of the department of Zoology and Compa- 

 rative Anatomy, Hofrath Burdach, president It was only pos- 

 sible to attend regularly the meetings of one section, and I 

 joined that of geology and mineralogy, so that I can only give 

 you an account of what was transacted in my department, and 

 that but in a very imperfect manner. — Wednesday, \^th Sep- 

 tember, Von Rosthorn of Wolfsberg, Carinthia, exhibited 

 and explained, l^i, A geological map he has lately finished of 

 the south-east parts of the Alps, in Carinthia, Carniola, and 

 Stiria ; 2cZ, An interesting section of the strata between Krain- 

 burg and Vochlabruick ; and, 3c?, Panoramic and geological 

 views of the Salzburg Alps, taken from a mountain near to 

 Gastein ; also several other sections. M. Boue read an account 

 of the origin, progress, and present state of the Geological So- 

 ciety of France, and proposed that an attempt should be made 

 to hold a general meeting of the members of that institution and 

 the naturalists of Germany. Baron Von Buch exhibited his 

 new and splendid map of the island of Teneriffe. — Thursday^ 

 9,0th September. Dr Reichenbach exhibited his geological map 

 of a district in Moravia to the north of Brunn, and chiefly to 

 the east of the road leading from that town to Prague. The 

 formations he mentioned as occurring are sienite, old red sand- 

 stone, coal formation, mountain limestone, quadersandstone, 

 and Leitha kalk. Professor Zippe read a paper on, I believe, 

 some peculiar forms of scapolite and idocrase. M. Partsch ex- 

 hibited lithographic prints of the rarer fossil shells found near 

 Vienna ; also the sections and maps of the Alps made by Mr 

 Murchison. The members were then afforded an opportunity 

 of examining the elaborate and extensive geological maps and 

 sections of the Carpathians made by the late Lill Von Lilienbach, 

 and now belonging to government. — Friday, 9.\st September, 

 The various sections held a common meeting, to witness the ex- 

 periments by the Chtvalier Aldini on the incombustibility of 

 asbestus cloth, and the practical purposes to which such clotb 

 could be applied., The geological section then joined the Ixk 

 tanical, in order to see some vegetable impressions exhibited by- 

 Count Sternberg, and also some of the plates which are to form 

 part of the supplement to his great work, which will appear next 



