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Hans Pohlig is to be met at work here, having just completed a 
memoir on the Pleistocene Elephants. The small Museum of the 
Naturhistorischer Verein is also full of interest for the stratigraphical 
geologist ; and the fine geological repositories of Messrs. Krantz & 
Co., and B. Stiirtz, may always be found to afford some novelties. 
Berutn.! 
In Berlin, the University Natural History Collections are at pre- 
sent being removed from the old building to the grand new Museums 
and Laboratories near the Institute of the Landesanstalt. Through 
the kindness of Prof. Dr. Dames, however, the writer had the oppor- 
tunity of examining all the fossil fishes, and a few of the higher 
vertebrates, including the unique Archgopteryx from Solenhofen, 
rendered classical by the Professor’s memoir. Among the earlier 
fossil fishes is a large series of the Lower Permian nodules from 
Rhenish Prussia, exhibiting remains of Pleuracanthus (Xenacanthus), 
Acanthodes, Conchopoma, and various Palzeoniscide. The examples 
of Pleuracanthus and Conchopoma are especially interesting, several 
being described and figured in Kner’s memoirs, and others adding 
much to our knowledge, at least of the former genus. The systematic 
position of the problematical “‘ Dipnoan” Conchopoma is still very 
doubtful ; the scales may be rhombic, as supposed by Kner, but the 
characters cannot be definitely determined. The fossil fishes of 
Solenhofen are also represented by a large collection; and the type 
of the Wealden Pholidophorus splendens, Strickmann, shows that 
this fish is either referable to Semdonotus, or to the same genus as 
“ Tepidotus” minor of the English Purbeck. An interesting series 
of fossil fishes from Mount Lebanon, collected by Dr. Fritz Noetling, 
has lately been received, and will afford several novel anatomical 
facts in regard to the members of this fauna, if not any new species. 
The Monte Bolca fish, described by Agassiz as Diodon tenuispinus, is 
also here; and a large series of Selachian and other remains from 
the Tertiary of Birket-el-Quriin, Egypt, described by Dr. Dames in 
1883. The Museum is fortunate in having secured the services of 
Dr. Ernst Koken, who entered upon his duties last spring, and the 
Professor, Dr. Dames, has lately extended his field of operations, 
having elucidated, in connection with the few specimens in Berlin, 
all the principal fossil Ganoids from the extra-Alpine Muschelkalk 
preserved in the Museums of Europe. 
The Museum of the Prussian Survey and School of Mines is arranged 
upon the plan of the Jermyn Street Museum of Practical Geology, 
and does not contain many vertebrate fossils of note. Here, 
however, is the fine skull of a Stegocephalian from the Lower 
Rothliegendes of the Bavarian Palatinate described under the name 
of Weissia bavarica, by Dr. Branco, in 1886; also some of the 
originals of the same Professor’s recent Memoir on Lepidotus, and 
a few fragments of German Devonian Fishes. 
1 Between Berlin and Munich the writer was accompanied by Mr. James W. 
Davis, F.G.S., of Halifax. 
