400 A. S. Woodward—Visit to Continental Museums. 
galleries, in many of the cases of which, it must be admitted, such 
delicate objects as fossil leaves could scarcely be seen to advantage. 
Not expecting to find the specimens accessible, the writer had un- 
fortunately decided upon a very brief visit; but through the kindness 
of Dr. Theodor Fuchs and other members of the staff, the whole of the 
fossil fishes were made available for examination, and afforded some 
idea of the richness of the series. There is a large number of the 
Comen Cretaceous fishes, including the types described by Heckel ; 
also many interesting specimens made known by Dr. Steindachner, 
the present Director of the Zoological Cabinet, who has unfortunately 
been compelled of late to desert Paleontology by the overwhelming 
amount of recent material absorbing his scientific energies. The 
Eocene Monte Bolca fishes comprise several unique specimens, 
among others the types of Caranz ovalis, Calamostoma bolcensis, 
Solenorhynchus elegans, Urolophus princeps, and Trygonorhina de Zignii, 
the last-named appearing to the present writer not to show the 
characters of the nasal valves requisite to separate it from Rhinobatus, 
The tail of a large Sword-fish from the Miocene of Malta is also 
interesting, and among earlier fishes, many noteworthy specimens 
occur in the collections from the Trias of Seefeld (Tyrol) and Raibl 
(Carinthia). 
The enormous Austrian collection in the Geologisches Reichsanstalt, 
under the direction of Dr. Stur and Dr. Mojsisovics von Mojsvar, 
also comprises many vertebrate fossils of note. The remains of the 
Miocene “Leathery Turtle,” Psephophorus polygonus, described by 
Prof. Seeley, occupies a small glass case here; and numerous fishes 
from the Austrian Tertiaries are being elucidated by Dr. Gorganovic- 
Kramberger, of Agram. The greater portion of the skull of Ceratodus 
from the Rheetic will shortly be described by Dr. Teller; and among 
Triassic fishes the collection includes all the type-specimens from 
Raibl, described in Kner’s well-known memoir. In the Paliéonto- 
logisches Institut of the University, Prof. Dr. Neumayr has an 
interesting small series of Austrian fossil fishes; and in the Geolo- 
gisches Institut, under Prof. Dr. Eduard Suess, are preserved the 
fragmentary remains of the Gosau Cretaceous Reptiles, described by 
Prof. Seeley. 
University Museum, Muntcn. 
Re-entering Germany, the University Paleontological Collection 
in Munich is the first attraction. There, in the midst of an 
enthusiastic group of students and naturalists engaged in original 
research, Prof. Dr. von Zittel adds to his numerous official duties 
the preparation of the great “ Handbuch der Paleeontologie,” which 
has now reached the final volume. Another fasciculus will appear 
almost immediately, comprising the Teleostei and the Amphibia. 
The collection is so extensive, and contains so many type-specimens, 
that it is impossible during any brief visit to do more than rapidly 
glance over the more prominent objects. Among higher vertebrata, 
the series of mammals from Pikermi and the French Phosphorites 
is especially extensive, and has lately been turned to good account 
by Dr. Max Schlosser. Of reptiles and fishes, the collection from 
