248 Miscellaneous. 
altern mining offices in Moravia and on the Rhine, he superintended 
the Wolfsberg Iron-works (Carinthia) in 1837, and in 1839 was 
intrusted with the Archducal mining and metallurgical establish- 
ments in Austrian Silesia, which he advanced by new works and 
improvements. By his own exertions, assisted by some of his sub- 
alterns, to whom he imparted sound geological notions and a taste 
for scientific pursuits, he threw much light, by descriptions, maps, 
and collections, on the geology of the Sudetian Mountains of Silesia, 
the North-west Carpathians, and the territory of Cracovia. (From 
an obituary notice, by Baron Hingenau, Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. 
Vienna, Sept. 13, 1864.)—Count M. 
Amongst the many indications of the spread of Geological know- 
ledge and its increased culture, we notice the establishment of a 
new local Society having that aim,—namely, ‘The Sunderland 
Geological Society,’ numbering as yet about thirty members, who 
intend to have, besides Ordinary Evening-meetings, four Field- 
meetings during the summer months at some of the many points of 
Geological interest to be found throughout the Northumberland and 
Durham district. The objects of the Society being to collect and 
diffuse information on the Science of Geology, the formation of a 
Museum and Library is also contemplated. 
Tar Paleontological Collection of the British Museum has lately 
been enriched by some fine remains of Thecodont Reptiles from the 
Upper Keuper Sandstone near Stuttgart, consisting of a cranium, 
a lower jaw, several vertebrae, dermal scutes, and limb-bones of 
Belodon Kapffi, von Meyer. ‘These specimens are remarkably per- 
fect, and have been extracted with great skill from their coarse and 
brittle matrix by Dr. Kapff, of Stuttgart. The lower jaw measures 
2 feet 3 inches in length; both rami are perfect, and have nearly 
their whole series of teeth iv sitd. There are also portions of the 
upper jaw and an entire right ramus of the lower jaw of Belodon 
Plieningeri, von Meyer; with several detached teeth and bones of 
this and other like reptiles from the same locality.—W. D. 
Tue Skin or REPTILES PRESERVED IN A Fossit Statre.—There 
has lately been obtained, for the British Museum, from Barrow-on- 
Soar, Leicestershire, a specimen of Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris, show- 
ing a large extension of the dermal covering upon the surface of the 
slab. It seems to indicate, from the outline, that these Reptiles had 
a prominent ridge upon the dorsal surface, similar in appearance to 
that which the males of the Pond-newt (Triton cristatus) present in 
spring. A specimen with a considerable portion of skin attached, 
also from Barrow, came into the possession of the late Dr. Mantell, 
who, unfortunately not recognizing its real nature, chiselled it 
nearly all away in developing the bones. Some fragments of the 
skin may, however, still be observed upon the specimen, which is 
now in the Museum.—W. D. 
