266 Loew—New Tertiary Fossils.—Reviews. 
5. Yellow sandy limestones with Avicula echinata and Opis, pro- 
bably equivalent with Jurassic beds of Nattheim,* Wurtemberg. 
6. Limestone with Nodosaria, Dentalina, Cristellaria, and fragments 
of udistes, on which are superimposed caleareous marls with- 
out fossils. These deposits indicate the presence of the Creta- 
ceous system, hitherto unrecognized in the Chain of the Hima- 
layas, but known in Persia. 
The expedition suffered very much by the want of water and 
provisions, as also from the cold. The flora and fauna were found 
to be excessively poor ; the terrestrial Mollusca in the Spiti Valley are 
represented by only three species of Helix, one Pupa, and a Limnea. 
—From ‘ L’ Institut, April. R. T. 
Some New Tertiary Fossits. By Dr. Lorw. 
(Proceedings of the Imperial Geological Institute, Vienna, June 21, 1864.) 
HESE have been found in the Cerithian Sands of Nussdorf 
(NW. of Vienna), intercalated between brackish plastic clay. 
Among them are two species of Paludina (P. ventrosa, Mont., and 
P. Baltica, Nils.), both now inhabiting brackish waters, the first on 
the coasts of the Channel, the other in the Baltic, and an undeter- 
mined species of Pupa, the first representative of this genus hitherto 
found in Tertiary deposits. With these shells were found a number 
of seeds of a species of Celtis, of the rusty colour common to all 
organic remains preserved in the Cerithian Sands. They are hollow 
in their interior, fragile, and evidently inferior in size to those of 
Celtis australis and Celtis occidentalis. The characteristic reticula- 
tion of their surfaces being more or less rubbed off, it is hardly 
possible to state to which of the two living species, C. australis (a 
native of the European and African coasts of the Mediterranean, 
also said to occur on the mountains of Tyrol, Carniola, Styria, and 
Hungary), or Celtis occidentalis (a native of the south of Northern 
America), they must be referred. Count M. 
REVIEWS. 
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Tur APPLICATIONS OF GEOLOGY TO THE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. 
Being Six Lectures on Practical Geology, delivered before the 
Society of Arts, as a part of the Cantor Series of Lectures for 
1865. By Professor D. T. Anstrep, M.A., F.R.S. London: 
Harpwicke. 1865. 
[elle attempt commenced some years ago by the Society of Arts 
to ascertain and organize the Lecture-giving power of the 
scientific community seems to have been successful in some respects, 
and to have obtained recognition of success in a most satisfactory 
form. The celebrated Dr. Cantor, of the E. I. Medical Service, 
* Of the age of the Coral-rag.—T. R. 
