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above are more schists, wliicli may perhaps be DoYoniau. The 

 crystalline schists of the Gailthal, erroneously attributed to the 

 Carboniferous, are in an unconformable position below the older 

 GJ-reywacke, which last far. surpasses the Carboniferous beds in 

 importance. E. B. T. 



4. — [Heft 3.] L TJeher das VerMUniss der hohmiscJien SteinhoMen- 

 zur Permformation. (pp. 249-282, with a plate of sections.) By 

 Dr. 0. Feistmantel. 



Notices the occurrence of workable coal-beds in Bohemia of 

 Permian age. The lower part of the series contains the coal-seams, 

 but both the upper and lower beds contain plants usually considered 

 typically Carboniferous, e.g. Stigmaria ficoides, Sigillaria alternans, 

 Alethopteris Serlii, Pecopteris arborescens, dentata, and oreopteridis, 

 SphenopJiyllum ScMotlieimii, Ccdamites Suckovii, etc., mixed with some 

 Permian plants. The Permian coal-beds are separated from the 

 Carboniferous beds below by shales with characteristic Permian 

 animal remains. These Bohemian lower Permian beds may be 

 paralleled according to our author with the beds containing Archego- 

 saiiriis in the Saar and Ehine district, which he also considers Dyas, 

 and which lie upon the true Saarbriicken Coal-measures. E. B. T. 



5. — Basalt -VorJcbmmnisse in Malirisch-Ostrauer SteinTcoMenhecTcen. 

 (pp. 282-288, with a map.) By J. Niedzwiedzki. 



Eruptive dykes occur in the coal-basin of Ostrau (Moravia), and 

 have in one case turned coal into columnar coke. The rock has the 

 outward characters of Basalt, and microscopic examination confirms 

 this determination. E. B. T. 



6. — Ueber das VorJcommen tertidrer Bildimgen im oberen Marizatlial. 

 (pp. 289-294, with a sketch-map.) By Anton Pelz. 



A contribution to the geology of the country between the Balkans 

 and Mount Rhodope. Tertiary beds, Nummulitic, etc., had not been 

 noticed before in this basin. E. B. T. 



7. — Beitrdge zur Geologie der Fruska Gorain Syrmien. (pp. 295-316.) 

 By Dr. Oskar Lenz. 



The Fruska Gora is one of a low chain of hills that rise out of the 

 plain between the rivers Save and Danube, near the fortress of Peter- 

 wardein. The nucleus of the range consists of crystalline schists, 

 interrupted by two principal bands of serpentine. The Trias is very 

 sparsely represented, and the Jurassic beds not at all. Tuff beds, 

 containing Upper Cretaceous fossils, of Gosau type, are the next 

 stage met with. Then follow fossiliferous and lignite-bearing beds 

 of Aquitanien age, one bed of coal being 9ft. thick. Above come 

 Leitha-conglomerate, Sarmatic, and Congeria-beds, as in the Vienna 

 basin, some being very fossiliferous. E. B. T. 



