398 A. 8S. Woodward— Visit to Continental Museums. 
University Musrvum, Lerpzic. 
In the University of Leipzig, Systematic Paleontology is almost 
excluded by the overwhelming pursuit of Stratigraphy, Petrology, 
and Mineralogy; but the collection of Stegocephalia from the Saxon 
Rothliegendes is entirely unique, and is rendered all the more 
instructive by the exhaustive descriptions and enlarged figures 
published in Prof. Dr. Credner’s well-known series of memoirs. 
The specimens are numbered and arranged in cabinets in the order 
in which they are described, as illustrating to a certain extent the 
life-history of each species; and accompanying all the groups are 
copies of the Professor’s detailed drawings mounted for convenient 
reference. Large restored figures have also been made in the form 
of wall-diagrams; and the only point that appears to the present 
writer somewhat speculative is the arrangement of the scutes in the 
pelvic region, of which the evidence is not altogether clear. 
DreEspDEN. 
The Geological and Paleontological Collections at Dresden, so 
long presided over by Prof. Dr. Geinitz, are located with the other 
State treasures in the old Palace of the Zwinger. With his able 
coadjutor, Dr. J. V. Deichmiiller, the Professor still welcomes 
visitors to the scenes of his extended labours; and the Museum 
comprises a large number of vertebrate fossils of the greatest 
interest. Among Permian fishes, a Plewracanthus from Bohemia is 
noteworthy for the perfection of the pelvic fins; and several teeth 
and a fin-spine from the Kupferschiefer elucidate some of the 
characters of the Cestraciont Selachian, Wodnika. A Kupfer- 
schiefer tooth, named Hybodus Mackrothi, is also interesting. A 
large series of Solenhofen Lithographic Stone fishes forms the basis 
of Prof. Dr. Vetter’s important memoir, published in the ‘“ Mittheil- 
ungen” of the Museum in 1881; and an example of the rare 
Solenhofen Ray, Asterodermus platypterus, is figured in Bronn’s 
“Tethea.” Several fragmentary fish-remains from the Saxon Chalk 
are described and figured in Dr. Geinitz’ ‘‘ Hlbthalgebirge”; and a 
collection from the Eocene Helmstedt Phosphate Beds is made 
known in the Professor’s papers upon those deposits. Among other 
vertebrates, there are also Stegocephalian fossils from the Saxon 
Rothliegendes, described conjointly by Drs. Geinitz and Deichmiiller. 
PBAGUE. 
The fame of the vertebrate fossils in the Royal Bohemian Museum 
at Prague has already spread afar, through the labours of the Director, 
Prof. Dr. Anton Fritsch. The collection is still retained in the 
ancient building in the Graben, the fine new Museum at the end of 
Wenzelsplatz being still unfinished, and probably not destined to be 
opened for public inspection for at least five or six years. The 
Vertebrate Fauna of the Bohemian Lower Permian is especially well 
represented, as may be inferred from Dr. Fritsch’s great memoir upon 
the Stegocephalia and Reptilia, now completed, and as will become 
still more evident from the forthcoming memoirs upon the Dipnoi, 
