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signer dott. Angelo Manzoni suUa Fauna Yaticana. [Answer 



to Criticisms of Dr. Manzoni.] Boll. li. Com. geol. Ital. t. vii. 



pp. 39, 40. 



The author had classed his Vatican Fauna as Tortonian or top of 



the Miocene, but has no objection to its being called L. Pliocene [see 



Geologic.\l Uecord for 1875, p. 81]. Repeats that Nassa semistriata 



occurs in the Miocene of the Roman district. E. B. T. 



Ponzi, Prof. G. II Tevere ed il sue delta. [The Tiber and its Delta.] 



lilvista Marittlma, anno ix. pp. 40 ; 3 pis. 

 A history of the foimation of the delta, with a geological description 

 of the district. 



Posepny, F. Ueber die geologischen Aufschliissc an der Saline zu 

 Bex in der Schweiz. [Geology of the Salt-deposits of Bex, Swit- 

 zerland.] Verh. Ji.-l\ geol. lieiclis. pp. 102-105. French Trans- 

 lation by M. de Tribolet, in Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. t. Ivii. pp. 77-84. 



Gives an account of the conclusions of former observers. The salt- 

 bearing rock is Liassic ; and the salt occurs associated with gypsum. 



Prendel, — . [Geological Sketch of the Chalk in the Crimea and the 

 Passage-beds between the Chalk and the Eocene.] ZapisTci No- 

 voruss. Ohw. Estest. t. iv. 



Prokesch, A. Die alten Nussdorfer Wasserbauwerke. [The old 

 i\u8sdorf Waterworks.] Blatt. Ver. Landesk. Niederosterr. Bd x. 

 nos. 1, 2, 3, p. 80. 



Contains geological matter. 



Rambotti, Vine. Osservazioni geognostiche sui dintorni di Catan- 

 zaro. [Geological Observations in the Neighbourhood of Catan- 

 zaro.] Boll. li. Com. geol. Ital. t. vii. pp. 388-402. 

 The rocks noticed in this extreme part of Calabria are various divi- 

 sions of the Tertiaries (the Secondary rocks are absent), crystalline 

 schists [Palaeozoic?], and various kinds of granites, which occur in 

 masses, veins, and dykes. E. B. T. 



Eaulin, Prof. V. Carte geologique du departement de la Gironde. 

 [Description of a Geological Map of Gironde (scale of 1 : 100,000).] 

 Bull. Soc. Geogr, comm. Bordeaux^ t. i. p. 223. 



Renevier, Prof. E. Sur les terrains de la Perte du Rhone. [Rocks 



of the Perte du Rhone.] Bull. Soc. Geol. France^ 3 ser. t. iii. 



pp. 704-706, plate. 



A detailed section of the beds in 25 subdivisions, belonging to the 



Molasse, Gault, Aptian, Rhodanian, and Urgonian formations, with a 



vertical and a longitudinal section, the latter to a true scale. G. A. L. 



. Relations du Pliocene et du Glaciaire aux environs de Come. 



[Relations of the Pliocene and Glacial Deposits in the Neighbour- 

 hood of Como.] Bull. Soc. Geol. France., 3 ser. t. iv. jip. 187-191J 



