170 Notices of Memoirs — A. von Kcenen, IT. Devonian Crinoicls. 



various Natural History collections of the Austrian capital were 

 deposited in different buildings, under independent management, but 

 they have now been brought together in a magnificent edifice ex- 

 pressly constructed to receive them. The Museum includes the 

 following five divisions: (1) Zoological; (2) Botanical; (3) 

 Mineralogical and Petrographical ; (4) Geological and Palaaonto- 

 logical ; (5) Anthropological and Ethnographical. Dr. A. Brezina 

 and Theodor Fuchs are the keepers of the third and fourth depart- 

 ments respectively. The mineralogical collection is noted more 

 particularly for its meteorites, of which there are 1207 specimens 

 from 365 different localities ; and the special forte of the palasonto- 

 logical division is the splendid collection of Tertiary mollusca. 



A special library is being formed in connection with the museum, 

 and we notice with pleasure the facilities provided for carrying 

 forward original research whether by the museum officials or by 

 voluntary independent investigators. 



The present number is intended as the first of a series in which it 

 is proposed to publish, together with the museum report, original 

 memoirs on various natural history subjects. 



IV. — Die CrinoIden des norddeutschen Ober-Devons. Von A. 

 von Kcenen, in Gottingen. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, 

 etc., 1886, Bd. I. p. 99-116, Plates I.— II. 



OWING to their defective state of preservation, very little has 

 hitherto been known of the Crinoids of the Upper Devonian 

 strata of North Germany. Prof, von Kcenen in this paper gives the 

 results of a critical examination of specimens which he has for many 

 years been collecting, as well as of those preserved in the Museums 

 of Bonn, Berlin, and Aix-la-Chapelle. From a comparison with the 

 forms from the Famennien group of Senzeille in Belgium, described 

 by Fraipont, the author has been able to determine the position of 

 the anal plate and the composition of the ventral roof of the calyx 

 of the different species ; characters, which the author regards as 

 of special value in the determination of species. The following 

 species are described and figured : — Melocrinus gibbosus, Goldf., M. 

 hieroglyphicus, Goldf, M. Chapuisi, Dewalque, M. Dewalquei, n. sp., 

 M. Benedini, Dew. -Fraipont, Hexacrinus wfundibulum, n. sp., H. 

 angulosus, n. sp., H. verrucosus, Dewalque, H. tuberculatus, n. sp., and 

 Storthingocrinus sphcericus, sp. n. ■ G. J. H. 



V. — Eecords of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XIX. 



Part 1, 1886. 



THIS part contains, with other papei-s, the Annual Eeport of the 

 Geological Survey of India by Mr. H. B. Medlicott, in which 

 attention is more particularly called to the discovery, by Dr. Warth, 

 of Palasozoic fossils in the Salt Range of the Punjab, in strata, asso- 

 ciated with a noted Boulder-bed, which have hitherto been regarded 

 as belonging to the Cretaceous series. The fossils, which have been 

 determined by Dr. Waagen, include several species of Conularia, 

 Bucania, Nucula, Atomodesma, Avicidopecten, Discina and Serpuliles, 



