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vidual, very suggestive of the genus Rhamphosuchus from the Siwalik 
Beds of India. Several undescribed fishes from the Mayence Basin 
are also represented ; and among the latest additions is a portion of 
the trunk of a large rhombic-scaled ganoid, like Lepidosteus, from 
the Brown-coal of the neighbouring village of Messel. 
University Musrum, STRASSBURG. 
Passing south to the University of Strassburg, we find the Professor 
of Geology and Paleontology also contemplating removal to more 
commodious quarters. The building of the new Geologisches Institut 
is yet only half erected, near to the great University Institutes devoted 
to Botany, Physics, and Chemistry. The palzontological collection 
under the care of Prof. Dr. Benecke is very extensive, and contains 
a few vertebrate fossils of note. The counterpart of the paddle of the 
Wiirtemberg Ichthyosaurus, already noticed at Stuttgart, is preserved 
here—a somewhat unfortunate separation of the halves of so unique 
aspecimen. One moiety of the Jordan Collection of Lebach Permian 
fishes is also to be seen, the other moiety being in Berlin; and the 
types of Kner’s Conchopoma gadiforme are thus separated, two of the 
series (the originals of pl. i. fig. 1, and pl. iii. of Kner’s memoir) being 
preserved in Strassburg. Other specimens are two of the original 
teeth of the common Otodus obliquus from Sheppey, figured by 
Agassiz, and some of the types of Carcharodon productus, C. leptodon, 
and C. megalodon; also some Selachian teeth, figured by Gervais, 
from the Muschelkalk of Lunéville. The Director of the Natural 
History Museum, Dr. Déderlein, is at present engaged upon the study 
of a fine series of the Lebach Pleuracanthus (Xenacanthus) ; and the 
Assistant in Paleontology, Dr. Otto Jiikel, is in the midst of 
researches upon the microscopical structure of Selachian teeth, 
_ particularly those of the Alsatian and Silesian Muschelkalk. 
Paris. 
The great Museum of Natural History in Paris is too well known 
to require more than a passing notice. Prof. Gaudry’s collections of 
fossil Mammalia from Pikermi and Mont Lebéron, a large series 
of Mammalia from the French Phosphorites, and Cuvier’s Gypsum 
Mammalia, are to be seen; also the Gazzola collection of Monte 
Bolca Fishes, and some fish-remains from Mount Lebanon, collected 
by Prof. Gaudry. Conspicuous among recent additions are specimens 
of the Stegocephalian Actinodon, and some other vertebrates from 
the Middle Permian of Autun, lately described by the Professor. 
The public are also now well provided for in the new temporary 
Gallery of Paleontology, in which are exhibited the great skeleton 
of Elephas meridionalis, from Durfort (Gard), a reconstructed skeleton 
of Mastodon angustidens, from the Miocene of Simorre (Gers), and 
mounted skeletons of Megatherium, Scelidotherium, and Glyptodon, 
Cervus hibernicus and Ursus speleus, besides a slab of gypsum with 
a nearly complete skeleton of Palgotherium magnum. With these 
are placed four examples of Dinornis, and several well-known 
reptilian fossils, in addition to a few of the larger Monte Bolca fishes. 
