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instructive collection illustrating dynamical geology, and in con- 

 nection with this are views of glaciers, volcanoes, and other geo- 

 logical agents. 



No reference to the Hof Museum would be complete which 

 omitted to notice the meteorite collection, which is claimed to be 

 the finest iu the world. Its principal treasures are well known 

 from the description of its curator, Dr. A. Brezina, in the Jahrbuch 

 k. k. geol. Reichsanstalt for 1885. In the same room is the splendid 

 petrographical collection arranged by Dr. Berwerth. 



The University of Vienna is also on the King Strasse a few 

 minutes' walk from the Hof Museum. Both the Geological and 

 Palasontological Schools have valuable collections. The latter is of 

 especial interest as having been made by the late Prof. Neurnayr. 

 The general geological collection is under the care of Prof. Dr. 

 Suess, and it includes much new material, which is being described 

 by Dr. A. Weithofer. 



The faunas best represented — at least among the Echinodermata — 

 are those of tbe Leithakalk and the North Italian Eocenes; several 

 of the types of Bittner and Laube are to be found here. 



The third collection in Vienna is that of the Geologisches Reichs- 

 anstalt in the Liechtenstein Palace in Razumoffsky Gasse. Here 

 there is a very extensive Austrian collection, including many of the 

 types of the species of the Director, Dr. Stur, and of Dr. Mojsisovics, 

 Dr. Bittner and other members of the staff. The Triassic Cepha- 

 lopoda, and Vicentin Echinoidea, and the collections from tbe 

 Tertiaries of the Vienna basin, and of Galicia and Hungary, the 

 Weisser Jura of Maehren, and Laube's types of Corals, Sponges, and 

 Echinoderms, are especially worthy of notice. The type of Neumayr's 

 Tiar echinus is one of the gems of the Museum. General geology is 

 not neglected, and there is a good series of rocks and specimens 

 illustrating the stratigraphy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 



Munich. 



The Museum of the " Akademie der Wissenschaften " in Munich 

 is probably that which will tempt the palaeontologist to linger 

 longest; for not only is the collection itself remarkably complete, 

 but it includes a series of most important historical specimens, 

 and by the courtesy of Prof, von Zittel it is available for study from 

 8 a.m. till 6 p.m. Foremost among the special collections is that of 

 Baron Miinster, including many of the specimens figured in Goldfuss 

 and nearly all of those in the " Beitrage zur Palaeontologie." 

 Schafbeutl's Bavarian collection, with all the Kressenberg types, 

 also contains some very valuable material. Among the Echino- 

 dermata the following are especially worthy of notice : the Echinoidea 

 from the Stramburger Schichten described by M. Cotteau : many of 

 the best of the Asteroidea of Dr. E. Fraas' monograph: the Echinopsis 

 pusilla redescribed by Dr. Ebert : a few of the types of Quenstedt's 

 " Der Jura " : of Prof. Dames' memoir on the Echinoidea of the 

 Juras of the North-west of Germany, and most of the specimens 

 from which were made the original illustrations in Prof, von Zittel's 



