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



great " HancTbuch." The Solenhofen Echinoidea are repi-esented by 

 a series in the Haberlein collection and by the types of Bohm and 

 Lorie's " Die Fauna des Kehlheimer Diceras Kalkes." 



In other groups, the type series ai'e not less important. Thus, 

 in the Medusidaa, there are the specimens figured in Oppel's 

 Beitrage, and in the memoirs of Hackel and von Amnion. The 

 collection of Annelida include the most important of those described 

 in Prof. Ehler's monograph, besides many types from the various 

 general collections. The Crustacea are represented by an extensive 

 series of important specimens : amongst others there are those 

 described by Minister in his "Beitrage" and by Oppel in his 

 " Mittheilungen," including some fine Isopoda and Cirripedia ; also 

 the Xiphosura used by Van der Hoeven in his " Eecherches sur 

 Limulus." The Sponge collection need hardly be mentioned, as 

 Prof, von Zittel's work has for ever made it famous. The Brachio- 

 poda and Mollusca include a miscellaneous series of types, as, e.g. 

 many of those of Oppel's memoir " Ueber die Brachiopoden der 

 unteren Lias," and of the various monographs of the " Geognostische 

 Palceontologische Beitrage." The Cephalopoda include some remark- 

 ably fine specimens of the Belemnoteuthidse and Chondrophora. 



In addition to the general collection, which is classified zoologic- 

 ally, there is a supplementary stratigraphical series. 



The Museum of the Bavarian Oberbergamt at 16, Ludwigstrasse, 

 contains a collection illustrating the geology of that kingdom. The 

 penological collection is the most important feature in the Museum, 

 containing as it does the rock specimens described by the Director, 

 Prof, von Giimbel, in his "Die palaolithischen Eruptivgesteine 

 des Fichtelgebirges," and his "Geognostische Beschreibung des 

 Konigreichs Bayern." 



Stuttgart. 



The Museum of the Wurtemberg capital is especially famed for 

 its Vertebrate treasures, and there is nothing among the Invertebrates 

 that can equal in interest the great slab of Aetosaurus. Nevertheless 

 it is well worthy a visit, as it contains an extensive collection from 

 the Jurassic and Triassic rocks of the neighbourhood. Here are to 

 be seen many of the types of Quenstedt's last work "Die Ammoniten 

 des schwabischen Jura," besides a few of those of the " Petrefacten- 

 kunde Deutschlands," as, e.g. his interesting Ophiura ventrocarinata. 

 Some of the Crustacea figured by Oppel, the finest of the Plicatocrini 

 that illustrate Prof, von Zittel's memoir, Eck's Trichasleropsis cilicia, 

 and Munster's Asterias wissmanni, are among the most important of 

 the Invertebrates. There is also the extensive collection made by 

 the Director, Prof. Fraas, in Syria and Egypt, and including the 

 types of Prof. Dames' memoir on the Crustacea. African palaeon- 

 tology is represented by the collections made by Baron Ludwig, 

 Dr. Krauss, and Dr. Holub. 



Tubingen. 



On the brow of the central hill of Tubingen, where the steep 

 slope that rises from the Neckar passes into the platform that bears 



