442 J. W. Gregory — Visit to Continental Museums. 



other Museums, no doubt mainly because the local knowledge of 

 the astute curator has enabled him to detect and reject all the 

 specimens imported into that town to make the limited supply more 

 equal to the demand. There are some interesting teratological 

 specimens from the glacial beds of the neighbourhood of Hamburg, 

 one of which, a deformed Galerites, has a considerable influence on 

 the true systematic position of that genus. The same drifts have 

 yielded a good series from the Danien of Faxoe, while the large 

 collection from the Upper Cretaceous of South Africa reminds the 

 visitor of Prof. Gottsche's travels. 



The contents of the Godeffroy Museum have already been re- 

 moved to the new building, where the Director, Dr. Kraepelin, and 

 his assistants, have temporarily arranged most of the zoological 

 collections. The Echinoderms, including an extensive series from 

 West Africa, have been classified by Dr. Pfeffer. Dr. Meiklesohn 

 is engaged upon an index collection similar to that at the Natural 

 History Museum, and several of his preparations are of especial 

 interest to palaeontologists. 



Berlin. 

 The "Museum fur Naturkunde" (at 43, Invalidenstrasse, just 

 outside the Neue Thor) is that which will probably first attract the 

 attention of the visitor. The Palreontological Department contains 

 a fine series of type collections, many of which are associated with 

 the work of the members of the staff. Thus it includes the collection 

 of Prof. Dr. Beyrich, the present head of the Department, and many 

 of the specimens described in the memoirs of Prof. Dr. Dames and 

 Dr. E. Koken. Amongst other collections there are those of 

 Leopold von Buch, and of Schlotheim ; Fischer of Munich's great 

 collection of Alpine fossils ; many of Goldfuss's Corals and Bivalves 

 and Mojsisovic's Triassic Cephalopoda ; the best of the originals of 

 Eck's Trichasteropsis senfti from the Saxon Muschelkalk, and half of 

 the collection of Bundenbach Asteroidea, described by Herr Stiirtz 

 in his earlier monograph. The Museum seems also rich geo- 

 graphically ; thus among the Echinozoa, in addition to the ordinary 

 Continental localities, Greece, Persia, Egypt, Texas and others of 

 the United States, Australia, etc., are all represented. There is too 

 a good collection — as collections go — of the Echinoidea of the Alpine 

 Trias, including a perfect specimen of the remarkable genus Tiar- 

 echinus ; as the only hitherto recorded specimens are the two in 

 Vienna, the opportunity for the examination of this was a very 

 pleasant surprise. The greatest treasure of the Museum, it need 

 hardly be remarked, is the second specimen of Archceopteryx. 



Immediately adjoining the " Museum fur Naturkunde " is that of 

 the " Geologische Landesanstalt und Bergakademie," in which is pre- 

 served a large stratigraphical series from Prussia and the Thuringian 

 States. Amongst others it contains the collections of Koch and 

 Dannenberg from the Devonian of the Khine valley and the Tertiary 

 of the Mainz basin : of Eichter from the Silurian and Devonian of 

 Thuringia : of Menzel from the Silesian Muschelkalk : of Schlom- 

 bach, Braun and Lasard from the Jura and Kreide of Bremen and 



