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Another day was spent at Eichstatt, Bavaria, in examining the 

 " Solenhofen " quarries, from which region so many interesting 

 Jurassic fossils have been procured. More than one hundred speci- 

 mens were purchased of Mr. Fritz Ehrensberger, among which are 

 some large cuttle-fish bones or pens of Lcptoteuthis gigas, one of 

 which is 38 inches and another 24 inches in length. Arrangements 

 also were made for the purchase of several large fishes and a fine 

 Rhamphorhynchus, showing both wing and tail membranes. 



Twelve days were spent in collecting Devonic fossils in the 

 Eifel, around Coblenz on the Rhine, and in Hessen-Nassau. In the 

 first and last-named places Mr. Schuchert had as his instructor 

 Professor Dr. E. Kayser of Marburg, and about Coblenz, Dr. O. 

 Follmann. Although the season was very wet and collecting con- 

 sequently much interrupted, a representative collection of Middle 

 Devonic fossils of the Calceola shales was obtained. 



At Bonn the large natural-history establishment of Dr. F. Krantz 

 was visited and a number of interesting fossils purchased. Two 

 of these are large Lias Holzmaden crinoids, Pentacrinus subangu- 

 laris, illustrated in plate ci. A Ccrithiuni gigantcuni, more than 

 24 inches in length, was also procured. From another dealer and 

 paleontologist. Dr. B. Stiirtz, an excellent series of Lower Devonic 

 starfishes and crinoids was obtained, making the National Museum 

 collection of these rarities second only to that of the British Mu- 

 seum. 



Two days were spent in collecting Cretaceous bryozoa about 

 Maastricht, in southern Holland, a locality prolific in these fossils. 

 At Brussels the splendid paleontologic collections of the Royal Mu- 

 seum were examined, chief among which is the dinosaur Igiianodon 

 bernissartaisis, to which an entire room is devoted. In this museum 

 is also the De Koninck collection of Carboniferous invertebrates. A 

 day each was given to examining the Carboniferous stratigraphy 

 about Vise and Tournai, and small collections were procured from 

 local dealers. 



At London considerable time was devoted to examining the great 

 and well-exhibited fossil collections of the British Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, and also the collection of the Geological Survey. 

 Froni Robert Damon, of Weymouth, England, was purchased a 

 lot of fine fossils, one of which is an excellent Jurassic slab of 

 Trigonia, while another slab is replete with crinoid heads of Penta- 

 crinus fossil is and is illustrated in plate cii. 



