42O HISTORY OF GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 



Tertiary Mammals of the Mainz basin, and also the remarkable 

 fauna from Eppelsheim, near Worms. Simultaneously with 

 Kaup, H. von Meyer began his palaeontological writings with a 

 memoir on fossil antetypes of the horse (Hipparion) found at 

 Eppelsheim, and on Cervus Alces and Dinotherium Bavaricum 

 (1832). Other monographs followed, describing fossil Mam- 

 malian teeth and bones from Germany and from different 

 parts of the world. A. Wagner, the Munich palaeontologist, 

 has the credit of having first made known the rich Mammalian 

 fauna of Pikermi, near Athens (1848-57); his works were 

 afterwards superseded by Gaudry's excellent monograph 

 (1862-67), wherein a fuller material collected by Gaudry 

 himself is accurately described and discussed. By the death 

 of H. von Meyer, Germany lost its best authority on fossil 

 Mammalia. The gap was to a certain extent filled by 

 Quenstedt and O. Fraas in Wiirtemberg, who carried out a 

 careful revision of Jaeger's preliminary account of the well- 

 preserved Mammalian remains from the Swabian Alp and 

 the fresh-water limestone of Steinheim (1870 and 1885). In 

 recent years, M. Schlosser, O. Roger, Koken, W. Branco, 

 and Pohlig are the leading German authorities in the research 

 of fossil Mammals. 



In Austria-Hungary, Peters, Suess, Toula, A. Hofmann, 

 Weithofer, Woldrich, and others have contributed valuable 

 memoirs on the knowledge of Tertiary Mammals. The 

 fauna of the Belgian caves was admirably described by 

 P. S. Schmerling (1833-46), and similar investigations on 

 the Diluvial Mammals of France were conducted by M. de 

 Serres, Lartet, E. Chantre, and Lortet. France has always 

 fostered the palaeontological research of fossil Mammals. The 

 fundamental works of Cuvier and Blainville were followed by 

 a large number of special memoirs. P. Gervais (1848-52) 

 published a work on the zoology and palaeontology of the 

 Vertebrates occurring in France. The Mammalian remains 

 of the Department Puy-de-D6me (1828) were made the 

 subject of special monographs by Croizet and Jobert ; Pomel 

 described those of the Rhone basin (1853); Edouard Lartet 

 described the Miocene fauna of Sansan ; H. Filhol the rich 

 Mammalian fauna of the phosphorus beds in the Oligocene 

 deposits of Quercy and neighbouring localities; and V. Lemoine 

 described the oldest Mammalian fauna of France occurring in 

 the Lower Eocene rocks of Cernays, near Rheims. 



