570 Revieics — Br. Nehring, Quaternary Fauna. 



III. UebEKSICHT iJEEK VIEKUNDZWANZIG MITTELEUROPAISCHE- 



QuARTAK-FauNEN ZUSAMMENGESTELLT UND MIT BEMERKUNaEN 



VERSEHEN von Dr. Alfred Nehring, Professor a. d. Konigl. land- 

 wirthsch. Hochscliule in Belin. (Abdruck a. d. Zeitschrift d. 

 Deutschen geolog. Gesellschaft, Jalirg. 1880.) [Eeview of the 

 Quaternary Fauna from 24 Localities in Middle Europe, 

 WITH Eemarks thereon, by Dr. Alfred Nehring. (Extracted 

 from the Journal of the German Geological Society, 1880.) 

 8vo. pp. 41.] 



THE author's aim in this papei" is to present in a condensed form 

 the results of researches made by himself and other investi- 

 gators into the Quaternary fauna of Germany and the adjoining 

 countries of Central Europe. Many of the observations have been 

 already published in the proceedings of various scientific societies, 

 but, as it often happens that these are not readily obtainable by the 

 student, a resume, showing the present knowledge of this subject, is 

 extremely useful. 



The paper contains a list of the Mammalia, Birds, Eeptiles, 

 Amphibians, Fishes, and Shells, which have been discovered in 

 caves, rock-fissures, and diluvial clay and Loess, in the following 

 localities: — (1) Thiede, near Wolfenbiittel ; (2) Westregeln, near 

 Magdeburg; (3) Seveckenberg, near Quedlinberg; (4) Sudmerberg, 

 near Goslar ; (5) The Lindenthaler Hyeena-cave, near Gera ; (6) 

 The Dwarf's Hole, near Pottenstein in Franconia; (7) Hoesch's 

 Cave ; and (8) The Elizabeth Cave in Arlsbachthal, tipper Fran- 

 conia ; (9) A Bone Cave, near Ojcow in Russian Poland ; (10) A 

 Cave on the Novi Mountain, 6000 feet above the sea-level, in Tatra, 

 Hungary ; (11) Nussdorf, near Vienna ; (12) Zuzlawitz, near Wiu- 

 terberg; (13) The Kobbers' Cave, between Nurnberg and Eegens- 

 burg; (14) The Ofnet in Eies ; (15) The Hollow Eock In Achthal, 

 near Ulm ; (16) Fissures in the Molasse at Baltringen, near 

 Biberach ; (17) The Thayinger Cave, near Schaffhausen; (18) 

 Langebrunn on the Danube, near Sigmaringen ; (19) The Loess of 

 Wurzburg ; (20) The Fox-holes at the Eothen Berge, near Saalfeld ; 

 (21) Steeten on the Lahn ; (22) The Unkelstein at Eemagen on the 

 Ehine ; (23) The Caves of Balve in Westphalia ; and lastly (24) 

 The Cave of Sureau, near Dinant on the Meuse. In addition to the 

 list of species from each of these places, short descriptions are 

 appended of the positions in which the fossils occur, and reference 

 made to the various authors who have discovered and determined 

 them, and to the public and private collections in which they are now 

 preserved. In a tabulated list of the most important of the fossil 

 Vertebrata, there are enumerated 71 species of Mammals, 7 species 

 of Birds and 4 species of Batrachians and Fishes. A glance at this 

 list shows that the fossils met with in these Central European caves 

 correspond to a very large extent with those present in similar 

 positions in this country. The most abundant and widely distributed 

 forms are the Cave-Lion, Hyaena, Wolf, Fox, Arctic Fox, Cave-Bear, 

 Weasel, Water-Eat, Lemming, Hare, Eeindeer, Ox, Horse, Bhino- 

 ceros tidiorMnus, and Elephas primigenius. The smaller Insectivora, 

 Carnivora, and Eodents, are also well represented. G. J. H. 



