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 Paleontological Collections from Europe 



Mr. Charles Schuchert, Assistant Curator of the Division of 

 Stratigraphic Paleontology in the National Museum, left Washing- 

 ton, June 24, 1903, for an extended trip through Europe, return- 

 ing November 2. His object was to study in the field and in 

 the museums the Ordovicic, Siluric, and Devonic faunas and their 

 stratigraphic sequence, to obtain large and instructive materials for 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and to represent the National 

 Museum at the Ninth International Geological Congress held at 

 Vienna during the latter part of August. 



He spent six days in collecting Siluric fossils on Gotland, an 

 island province of Sweden replete with well-preserved fossils. 

 Nearly all the localities are along the sea-shore and the cliffs known 

 as the Klint. The late Professor Lindstrom's collector, Mr. Anton 

 Florin, assisted in gathering the fossils. 



Mr. Schuchert next devoted sixteen days to a study of the mu- 

 seums in St. Petersburg and to making Ordovicic collections in the 

 Baltic region west of Reval. The preservation of these fossils is 

 excellent and collecting here is as good as about Cincinnati. Nearly 

 all the localities in Estland are on baronial estates, and every facil- 

 ity was extended by the owners for making the collecting both easy 

 and profitable. During this time Mr. Schuchert was directed and 

 instructed by Professor Dr. Frederick von Schmidt of the Imperial 

 Academy, and by Dr. August von Mickwitz of Reval. Both of 

 these gentlemen also presented much fine material, so that a repre- 

 sentative collection of the varied trilobites, cephalopods, brachiopods, 

 and cystids are now in the National Museum. 



From Reval Mr. Schuchert traveled to Berlin, Dresden, and 

 Prag, where the various natural-history museums were visited and 

 the paleontologic collections examined. With Dr. Jaroslav Perner 

 a day was spent in the Moldau valley, above Prag, in examining 

 a number of Barrande's localities for fossils of the Siluric and De- 

 vonic strata. Another day was spent in collecting Konieprusian 

 fossils at Barrande's famous locality, Zlaty Kun, near Beraun, and 

 some good material was purchased of Mr. Fritsch at Prag. At 

 Miinich two days were spent in an examination of the great col- 

 lections made under the direction of the late Professor Zittel. 



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