40S Notices of Memoirs — Short Notices of Scientific Papers. 



cutting of the railway close by, a good, but much smaller specimen 

 of Sigillaria, with roots attached, was carefully got out, and presented 

 by the engineer to the Yorkshire College at Leeds. So remarkable 

 a fossil as the one described should be procured at once for one of 

 our museums ; it would be an unrivalled example for geological 

 students. To allow it to meet the common fate of many fine fossils, 

 that of being broken up for rockeries or gardens, would be an act of 

 inexcusable and gross scientific vandalism. The proprietors intend, 

 although it stops the progress of their business, to allow it to remain 

 undisturbed for three or four weeks longer, and to any geologists 

 tempted by the breezy Yorkshire hills and fine scenery, they offer 

 a hearty Yorkshire invitation to inspect this giant fossil. 



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I. — Short Notices of Scientific Papers. 



1. — Bibliotheque Geologique de la Eussie, redigee par S. Nikitin. 

 Large 8vo. pp. 126. (St. Petersburg, 1886, Librairie Eggers et Cie.) 



THIS work is intended to be a record of all books, periodical 

 publications, and brochures treating of the geology, mineralogy, 

 and palaeontology of Kussia, whether published in that country or 

 elsewhere. It gives a short resume of the contents of each work in 

 Eussian and French. The present is the first memoir of the series, 

 and contains references to 256 separate papers which have been pub- 

 lished in 1885. They appear to have been very carefully prepared, 

 and in the paleeontological papers the names of the new genera and 

 species are quoted. There is also a complete index. This record 

 will be of special value to all geologists, to whom at present works 

 published in Eussian are quite unavailable, for it will at least furnish 

 an idea of the progress of the science in that country, and we 

 sincerely hope that it may be continued in future years. 



Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums ; redigirt von 

 Dr. Franz Eitter von Hauer. Bd. i. No. 2. (Wien, 1886.) 



This second number of the Annals of the new Natural History 

 Museum at Vienna contains amongst others, the following important 

 papers : — 



2. — Ueber die miocenen Pteropoden von CEsterreich Ungarn, von 

 Ernst Kittl. Mit einer lithogr. Tafel. 



The characters of the minute and delicate shells of Pteropods from 

 the Austro-Hungarian Miocene strata are carefully worked out, and 

 illustrations given of most of the species. Their presence in great 

 numbers indicates, according to the author, the abyssal character of 

 the deposit. The following new species are described : Creseis 

 FucJisi, Vaginella Lapugyensis, V. austriaca, V. Bzelialci, Balantium 

 Fallauxi. B. Bittneri, Hyalcea bisulcata, Spinalis Koeneni, S. Tarcha- 

 nensis, and S. Andrussowi. 



