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der Alpen. Ein Beitrag zu der geschichte der Thierwdlt in Italieu 

 seit der Tertiiirzeit. [Pliocene and Ice-period on both sides of the 

 Alps. A Contribution to the History of the Italian Fauna since 

 Tertiary times.] Pp. 78, map. 4to. Basle. 



Rutot, A. Xote sur la presence de la barytiue dans le schiste rouge 

 de I'etage du poudingue de Burnot. [Barytine in the Red Shale 

 of the Burnot Conglomerate Horizon.] Ann. Soc. Geol. Belg. t. iii. 

 Bull. p. liii. 



Note of occurrence. 



Rutot, A., and — Vincent. [Description of the Brussels Eocene.] 

 Proc.-verh. Soc. Belg. Micr. no. ix. pp. 9-13 (Abstract). 



The U. Ypresian (4 zones), Paniselian, Bruxellian (2 zones), and 

 Laekenian (3 zones) are referred to, with special reference to Yanden 

 Broeck's discovery of the alteration of Laekenian bods. W. H. D, 



Saigne, Lucien de la. Le Portugal historique, commercial et indus- 



triel. [Portugal.] Paris. 

 States facts regarding the natural resources of the country. 



Sandberger, F. [Boring in Switzerland.] N. Jahrh. Heft i. pp. 

 43, 44. 



A boring for coal in the Canton Aargau reached a dej^th of 1422 

 feet in Oct. 1875 ; but having been for some depth in hornblende- 

 rocks, hope of reaching coal was abandoned. F. W. R. 



Saporta, Count Gr. de, Dr. A. F. Marion, and A. Falsan. Recherches 

 sur les vegetaux fossiles de Meximieux, precedees d'une introduc- 

 tion stratigraphique. [The Fossil Plants of Meximieux, with a 

 Stratigraphical Introduction.] Basle. 

 Reprinted from the memoir noticed in the Geological Recokd for 

 1875, pp. Q2 (under Falsan), 339. 



ScMuter, Clemens. Yerbreitung der Cephalopoden in der oberen 



Kreide Norddeutschlands. [Distribution of Cephalopoda in V. 



Chalk of N. Germany.] Zeitsch. deutscli. geol. Ges. Bd. xxviii. Heft 



3, pp. 457-517. Noticed in Qeol. Mag. 1877, p. 169. 



Out of 155 Cephalopoda, 40 are peculiar to the Cenomanian, 29 to 



the Turonian, 21 to the Ems beds. Lists of characteristic Cephalopoda 



and of the other fossils in each zone are given, while the precise range 



of each species of Cephalopoda is shown by a table. The following are 



the zones adopted for the N. German U. Cretaceous in ascending order : — 



A. Lower Planer (Cenomanian), zones of (1) Pecten asper and Catopy- 



gus carinatus, (2) Amm. varians and Hemiaster Griepenherli^ (3) Amm. 



Rhotomagensis and Bolaster subglohosus. B. Upper Planer (Turonian), 



zones of (4) Actinocamax plenus, (5) Inoceramus mytiloides and Amm. 



nodosoides = Mytiloides-Planer, (6) Inoceramus Brongniarti and Amm. 



TFooZ/yari=Brongniarti-Planer, {7) Heleroceras Reussianum and Spon- 



