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C. Embser (analogous to the Alpine ''Gosau"). 



Zone of Ammonites Marges and Inoc. cligitatus. 



D. Lower Senonian. 



1. Sandy Marls of Recklinghausen, with Marsupites ornaius. 



2. Quartzose beds of Haltern, with Peclen muricaius. 



3. Calcareous sandy beds of Diilmen, with Scaphites bmodosus. 



E. Upper Senonian (CcBloptychian Chalk). 



1. Zone of Becksia Scekelandi. 



2. Zone of Ammonites Coesfeldensis. 



3. Zone oi Amman. Wittekindi axiA. Heroceras poli/2}locum. 



Count M. 



IV. — The Food of a Siberian Ehinoceros. 

 (Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, January 23, 1877.) 

 Dr. St. J. Schmalhausen has microscopically examined the 

 remnants of food contained in the cavities of the teeth of a North- 

 Siberian Rhinoceros {Wi. antiquitatis) whose remains are preserved 

 in the museum of -Irkutsk. These are remnants mostly of leaves, 

 and of some stems, chiefly monocotyledonous. There are fragments 

 of grasses, and of small twigs of some woody plants, such as Picea 

 (ohovata'^), Abies (Siberica?), Larix (Siberica '?) , Epliedra, sp., Salix, 

 sp. (prevalent), and Betula [fructicosa'?). All these plants still 

 exist in high northern latitudes, and confirm Brandt's supposition, 

 that the Pachyderms of North Siberia lived in the regions where 

 their remains, 'partly preserved by frost, are now found. — Count M. 



V. — The Species of Mastodon in Europe. 



Herr M. Vacek stated at the meeting of the Imp. Geol. Instit. 

 Vienna, February 6, 1877, that of the seven species of Mastodon 

 known to exist in the European Tertiaries, five have been ascertained 

 to have lived within the region of the Austro-Hungarian empire. 

 These are Mast. Borsoni, Mast, tapiroicles, Mast, anffustidens, Mast, 

 longirostris, and Mast. Arvernensis. 



VI. — On an Ossiferous Cave in Thuringia. By Dr. K. Th. Liebe. 

 (Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, February 20, 1877.) 

 A small Bone Cave was discovered late in the autumn of 1874, 

 in the Linden Valley, South of Gera in East Thuringia. The 

 animals whose remains are found in this cave (probably a Hyeena- 

 den, of rare occurrence in Germany), arranged according to their 

 relative frequency, are, Equus fossilis, Sijcsna sjjelcsa (nearly all the 

 bones broken and evidently gnawn), Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Bos 

 primigeniiis, TJrsiis spelaius, Felis spelcea, Cerviis elaplius, Cerv. alces, 

 Cerv. tarandus, Elephas primigenius, Alakdaga geranus, Vulpes 

 vulgaris, Canis, sp., Arctomys marmotta, Arvicola gregalis, Mus 

 rattus, Cervus capreohis, Mustela, sp., Lepus, sp., Tetrao tetrtx, 

 Pandion haliaetus, and Charadrius. sp. The presence of Alakdaga (a 

 species of Gerboa), now living in the Steppes of extreme East 

 Europe, and of Arvicola gregalis, an inhabitant of high Northern 

 latitudes in Europe and Asia, are specially worthy of notice. The 



