372 Reviews — G. Merzhacher — On the Caucasus. 



V. — Shorter Geological Notes. — In his report of progress of 

 the Lausanne Museum for 1900, Professor Eenevier calls attention 

 to a fine collection of fossils received by the Museum from 

 M. Kittener, of Sainte-Croix. The collection contains 2,000 speci- 

 mens, all of which are properly located and zoned. 



A SKIN and two skulls of the new and remarkable mammal, lately 

 discovered by Sir Harry Johnston in the forest on the borders of 

 the Congo Free State, were exhibited before the Zoological Society 

 at their meeting on the 18th June. Sir Harry Johnston's original 

 idea that the animal belonged to the giraffes was endorsed, it having 

 relations with the extinct Helladotheres. It was named Okapia 

 Johnstoni. 



GirsTAV Keller has drawn and Dr. Andreae has described six 

 large wall-diagrams of extinct animals. They are — Bhytina gigas, 

 ElepJias primigenius, Triceratops and Agathaumas, Megaceros giganteus, 

 an Ichthyosaur, and a Plesiosaur. They are published by Th. G. 

 Fischer, of Cassel, and can be bought separately at six marks apiece. 



In Symons' Meteorological Magazine for June, 1901, are several 

 matters of geological interest. There is a report of the Second 

 Conference for the International Investigation of the Sea and the 

 Air ; there is the programme drawn up by the Leeds Committee for 

 proposed Observations on Dew-ponds ; and there is a note on the 

 Norwegian Eainfall Service, in which service snow and rain are 

 measured in separate gauges. 



The School of Mines and Industries of Bendigo, Victoria, issues 

 an Annual Eeport for the year ending June, 1900, of 96 pages. The 

 Macgillivray Museum attached to the School pays special attention 

 to mining matters, and the curator asks for donations of books and 

 specimens connected with the subject. The syllabus of examinations 

 is a full one. The Mining Science Society seems to have had 

 a successful year of work. 



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I. — The Caucasus. 



AUS DEN HOCHREGIONEN DBS KaUKASUS. WaNDERUNGEN, ErLEB- 



NissB, Beobachtungen von Gottfried Merzbaoher. 2 vols. : 

 pp. xxxviii, 958 and 964, with 246 illustrations and a map. 

 (Leipzig : Duncker & Humblot.) 



HERE MEEZBACHEE has observed the Horatian rule of 

 keeping a book in the desk for nine years, because the 

 journey of which this is the fruit was undertaken in the Summer 

 and Autumn of 1891. He was accompanied by the well-known 

 Alpine climber, Herr L. Purtscheller, who, however, returned rather 

 before his friend, and by two guides from Kals. Though the weather 

 at times was unpropitious they succeeded in ascending several 

 important peaks, such as Elbruz, Tetnuld, Dongus-orun-Jusengi- 

 Baschi, a mountain as difficult as its name, its companion Sulu- 

 kol-Baschi, Dschanga-tau, Kasbek, Gimarai-Choch, and others. 



