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coniferous wood probably belong to this species; Megaphytum 
(Rothenbergia) Hollebeni, Cotta; Sagenaria transversa, Goppert ; 
S. Veltheimiana, Presl; S. remota, Goppert; S. (?) eyelostigma, 
Goppert ; S. minutissima, Goppert ; Lycopodites, sp. ; Odontopteris 
Stichleriana, G6ppert ; Calamites transitionis, Gdppert (in great 
variety of markings) ; Fucoides bipinnatus, sp.n. ‘There are also 
two fossils figured, whose nature is doubtful ; one of them allied ap- 
parently to Harlania. 
The above fauna is exclusively marine; and one, at least, of the 
plants has had the same habitat; the rest of the plants, however, 
cannot have grown under water. We have thus indications of a 
sea not very far from land; Encrinites, belonging to deep water, 
being drifted up occasionally. A deposit of sand stretches up to- 
wards the nerth-east, from the present Thuringian Forest, as far as 
the outcrop can be traced; and there is a parallel formation of lime- 
stone at some distance. ‘Thus the ‘Culm’ of Thuringia may be the 
equivalent of the Carboniferous Limestone. 
The stratification of the Thuringian Culm is only here and there 
conformable, and it is faulted differently in different members ; so 
that it appears that it is distinct in this respect both from the under- 
lying Devonian and overlying Permian rocks. 
The Culm-sandstone is available for walls and occasionally for 
paving, while thin slabs are useful for oven-plates. Neither the coal 
nor the iron would be good for speculation. ‘The decomposed rock 
makes a tolerably good soil.—D. 'T. A. 
Dre Fauna DEr BrRAUNKOHLENFORMATION VON LAtporEF BEI Brrnperc. Von 
C. Grepet. pp. 93. 4 plates. (From the Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden 
Gesellschaft zu Halle. Vol. vii. 1864.) 
fp ete Ue ae perhaps the only memoir which has hitherto been 
specially devoted to a description of the strata of Latdorf is 
that by Herr C. Zincken in the ‘ Zeitschrift fiir gesammten Natur- 
wissenschaften,’* the fossils from this locality have furnished ma- 
terial, wholly or in part, for several papers. Thus the Bryozoa were 
first described by Dr. Ferd. Stoliczka,t and afterwards, with the 
Corals, by Dr. F. A. Roemer,{ which memoir has since been rather 
severely criticized by Dr. Stoliczka, in a letter to the Editors of the 
‘Neues Jahrbuch,’§ these two paleontologists differing very mate- 
rially in their views of the limits of specific variation, and on other 
points. Some of the Shells have been described by Dr. Semper in 
the ‘ Archiv der Meklenburger Freunde der Naturgeschichte,’ || and 
others in Prof. Beyrich’s work on the North-German Tertiary 
Shells, besides which most books and pamphlets on German Oligo- 
cene strata or fossils contain more or less direct references to those 
of this very celebrated locality. 
* Vol. xxi. 1863, p. 530, pl. 3. 
Y Sitzungsberichte der k. k. Wiener Akad. vol. xlv. pp. 71-79. 
{ Paleeontographica, vol. ix. Heft 1. § See Neues Jahrb, 1864. 
|| Vol. xv. 1861, pp. 221-409, 
