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Naturalists in the midst of their work, that it is impossible 
adequately to incorporate the results in any brief notice; but a few 
points at least seem to be of general interest. 
BrvussE.s. 
To students of the Paleontology of the Vertebrata, the fine Royal 
Museum in Brussels has become so well known, through the 
researches of Dupont upon cavern-remains, of van Beneden upon 
Pliocene Cetacea, and of Dollo upon Wealden Reptiles, that its 
riches scarcely require enumeration. The work upon the huge 
Iguanodons is at present almost suspended; and the elucidation and 
arrangement of the Reptiles of the Belgian Lower Tertiaries is now 
in active progress. The Chelonia, especially, are receiving M. 
Dollo’s attention, and among the latest acquisitions are remains of 
the large Athecan Psephophorus rupeliensis, from the Rupelien beds 
of the neighbourhood of Antwerp, of which one remarkably complete 
skeleton is already mounted. 
Among fishes, portions of two fine skeletons of Carcharodon 
heterodon, from the Rupelian Beds of Boom, were added last year ; 
and the Collection also comprises the large series of teeth of Car- 
charodon and other Belgian Tertiary Sharks, arranged, and in part 
studied, by the late Capt. Le Hon. The majority of the fish-remains 
from the Belgian Cretaceous and Tertiaries are very fragmentary, 
and a few have already been described by van Beneden and Storms; 
but when the Museum Collection is carefully studied and arranged, 
several new forms will doubtless be recognized, and further informa- 
tion afforded concerning some species already known, as in the 
case of the Selachian Rhombodus Binkhorsti, from the Maastricht 
Chalk, of which a fine small connected series of the teeth is pre- 
served. The collection of Wealden fishes from Bernissart is still 
undetermined, but will shortly be studied by MM. Dollo and 
Raymond Storms; and this will yield several species related to, if 
not identical with, those from the English Purbeck. 
The series of Selachian teeth from the Carboniferous Limestone 
of Belgium, described by the late Prof. L. G. de Koninck, is also 
preserved here, and will, in part, require revision in the light of 
more recent discoveries. Pleurodus is represented under the name 
of Tomodus laciniatus; and, as already noted by St. John and 
Worthen, Streblodus tenerrimus is founded upon a tooth of Sandalodus. 
Bonn. 
The Museum of the University of Bonn is contained in the palatial 
rooms of the old Castle of Poppelsdorf, and comprises among 
its Pleistocene Vertebrata the far-famed Neanderthal skull. The 
originals of Goldfuss’ early memoirs are also here, including the 
well-known Pterodactylus crassirostris from Solenhofen—the basis 
of the restoration with an erroneously added fourth clawed finger, 
still surviving in many text-books. Some fragments of Devonian 
fishes from the Hifel are among the most recent additions; and Dr. 
