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ScHNETZLER, J. B. NoticG gcologique et mineralogique. Bull. Soc. 



Vaud. Sci. Nat. t. xii. no. 71, pp. 438, 439. 

 Notices, in the valley of the Sarine near Rossinieres (Switzerland), 

 limestones with lignitic matter and fossils, and veins of quartz-crystals 

 whose black colour is supposed to be due to their being formed in the 

 wet way in contact with organic matter. Notices also near Vallorbes 

 crystals of arragonite interlacing and forming among vegetable matters, 

 mycelium of fungi, «S:c. E. B. T. 



Seguenza, G. Studii stratigrafici suUa Formazione pliocenica dell* 

 Italia Meridionale. [Stratigraphical studies on the Pliocene for- 

 mation of S. Italy.] Boll. K. Com. geol. Ital. pp. 1-15, 67-85, 

 146-152, 271-283, & 331-347. 

 A continuation of the Catalogue of MoUusks and Cirripedes from the 

 upper zone of the PHocene of Southern Italy. There are four columns 

 for Sicilian localities, five for Calabrian, two for Tuscan ; and further two 

 columns are set apart for noting whether any species survives to tlie 

 Recent period, and is found in the Mediterranean or Northern seas. For- 

 mer parts appeared in the * Bollettino ' last year (see also ^90S<). E. B. T. 



. Nota sulla " relazione di un viaggio geologico in Italia " del 



Dott. Fuchs. [On a paper by Dr. Fuchs concerning a geological 

 journey in Italy.] Boll. R. Com. geol. Ital. pp. 294-306. 

 Dissents from views expressed by Dr. Fuchs, who has referred the 

 Miocene limestone of Castellina and Rosignano to the agd of the Leitha 

 conglomerate, and identified it with the '* concretionary limestone " of 

 Seguenza. The author refers the Rosignano limestone to the period 

 between Upper and Middle Miocene, and the " lenticular rock " of Par- 

 lascio he places between Upper Miocene and Older Pliocene ; the con- 

 cretionary limestone occupies different levels towards the lower part of 

 the Pliocene. He divides the Pliocene into two zones, unconformable 

 to each other. E. B. T. 



. [Sicily.] Zeit. deutsch. geol. Gesell. Bd. xxvi. Heft 4, 



pp. 934, 935. 



Letter announcing the formation of the nucleus of a Geological 



Museum at Messina, and referring to the writer's recent researches on 



the older Tertiary and the Cretaceous rocks of Sicily. F. W. R. 



Sexe, S. a. JoBttegryder og gamle Strandlinier i fast Klippe. 



[Giants' Cauldrons, &c.] Pp. 44 (3 plates, woodcuts). 4to. 



Kristiania. 



Describes several "giants' cauldrons" in Norway, discusses the 



theories of their origin, and suggests that they may have been formed 



by the friction of sand, gravel, and stones rotated by a moving column 



of ice. This paper is accompanied by an English translation ; the 



essay on old coast-lines is not translated. F. W. R. 



SiDENBLADH, M. Om siluriska bildningar i Lappland. [Silurian 



deposits, Lapland.] Geol. fiiren. Stockholm Forhandl. bdt. ii. 



pp. 88-96. 



Consists of a number of local details as to the lie of the Silurian beds. 



