March, 1S96. 



THE BOHEMIAN MUSEUM. 



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Beneath a portrait of Barrande, representing him at forty years 

 of age, are exhibited his hammers and other tools, together with 

 photographs of the memorial plate on the rocks at Kuchelbad, and of 

 the house in which he lived and where he kept his collection. 



The second room is the Sternbergeum, beautifully arranged, in 



Trinucleus ornatus (Sternb.) 

 Vinice. D-d 3. Barr. Vol.. I. PI. 29.1.3 



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Obolus? Rokilzanensis Barr. 



Etacje D-d I. 



Rokycany. Barr. Vol. V. PI.J26J.2. 



Homocystites alter Ban-. 



Barr. Vol. VII. PI 28. f. 11.19-21. 



Zahorany. Etatje D-d4. 



Fig. 1. — Sample of mounting employed in the Barrande Collection ; 

 half natural size. 



which are all the original specimens figured by Count Caspar Sternberg 

 in his " Flora Fossilis," and in the publications of Corda. A marble 

 bust of Sternberg is placed opposite a central group of large fossil 

 plants. One case containing the Arthropoda (scorpions, spiders, etc.) 

 from the Coal-measures is of special interest. 



Then follows a room in which the rocks and fossils of the Car- 

 boniferous and Permian formations are arranged in stratigraphical 

 order, illustrating the papers of K. and O. Feistmantel, and where all 

 the originals of Dr. A. Fritsch's " Fauna der Gaskohle " are exhibited, 

 explained by figures from that work. One case containing the Jurassic 

 fossils described by Geinitz and Bruder finishes the series. 



The next three rooms when finished will contain specimens from 



