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Gratz, are carried on diligently under the direction of M. v. Zollikofer. 

 Yearly volumes are published by the Museum in Linz, and by the 

 Natural History Museum of Klagenfurt. In Trieste, Professor Stoffich 

 is a most assiduous collector of all the productions of the Adriatic. 

 Professor Danilo of Zara, and Professor Lanza of Spalatro, are at work 

 upon a Fauna of the Adriatic. The * Werner Verein ' of Briinn has 

 completed its Geological Surveys, and is proceeding to publish a 

 geological map of Moravia and Silesia. Natural History Museums, 

 for the purpose of making Collections only, have been established in 

 Bregenz, Trent, and Roveredo. 



In Milan, the ' Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali ' (formerly the 

 Geological Society) publishes Transactions containing excellent papers 

 in every department of the Natural Sciences. The ' Atti ' of the 

 Ateneo Italiano (formerly the Accademia Medico-fisico-statistica) 

 contain also many articles on Natural History. Stoppani's Paleonto- 

 logy of Lombardy has reached its 14th number. In Brescia, a beau- 

 tiful work on fungi (Miceti dell' agro Bresciana), in which some new 

 species have been established, has been very lately published by 

 Antonio Venturi. 



Professor Zeithammer of Pesth, author of papers in Petermann's 

 ' Mittheilungen ' on barometric measurements of heights, and the 

 temperature of springs in the mountainous districts of Agram and 

 Sambor, and on the mode of writing Sclavonian names of places in 

 other languages, is about to publish in the same journal an essay on 

 the natural grouping of the mountain ranges of Croatia, giving the 

 elevations of the principal stations above the sea-level, to be followed 

 by a separate work on the hypsometry of Sclavonia, and the military 

 frontier. 



With the view of exhibiting to the eye the ethnographic relations 

 of separate tribes, he has just published in the ' Mittheilungen der k. k. 

 geographischen Gesellschaft,' ideas on the establishment of an Aus- 

 trian Ethnographic Museum, which, in its principal features, would 

 be equally applicable to any other country. 



M. Steinheilhas communicated to the Munich Academy of Sciences 

 a simple method of adjusting an equatorial, by levelling the decimation 

 axis and the finder, and observing transits of stars with the declination 

 axis horizontal. He also exhibited an ' aplanatic ' object-glass, con- 

 structed on the principle indicated by Gauss in the first volume of 



