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rooms, more than simple, in which the oM tutor of the Comte de 

 Chambord passed the greatest part of his life, there are collections 

 of Primary fossils which have cost enormous sums. 



Barrande was parsimonious with regard to himself, prodigal for 

 science. His collection will be removed into the museum which is 

 now being built. A young Czech professor, M. 0. Novak, and a 

 German savant, M. Waagen, well known for his work upon the 

 palaeontolgy of India, are engaged in continuing the gigantic labours 

 of Barrande upon the Silurian fossils of Bohemia. 



Dresden, whose picture galleries draw artists from all countries 

 of the world, has also accorded a large development to its galleries 

 of geology and palseontology. They are in the same palace (Z winger) 

 as the objects of art. The Director, Prof. H. B. Geinitz, has arranged 

 the fossils by geological ages, in a way that one can readily fornx 

 an idea of the life-history of past times. The creatures of the Per- 

 mian epoch are particularly well represented there ; no one has con- 

 tributed so much as Prof. Geinitz in making known this epoch, 

 which was formerly believed to have represented a momentary sus- 

 pension in the vital forces, but which, on the contrary, has furnished 

 for some years past a multitude of fossil plants and animals. 



Berlin has quite another character to Vienna : while the latter 

 aspires more to pleasure, Berlin prefers the harshness of a military 

 life. Nevertheless its government, which above all neglects nothing 

 which relates to war, occupies itself also with science, for it knows 

 that Knowledge is Power. 



A vast building has just been constructed in Invaliden Strasse for 

 the geological collections directed by M. Hauchcorne, and another 

 for the collections of the agricultural arts, whei'e M. Nehring has 

 assembled the curious Quaternary fauna, which he has described under 

 the name of the Fauna of the Steppes ; between these museums, a 

 large Museum of Natural History is about to be erected. 



The University has some fine collections of geology directed by 

 Professor Beyrich, and of palseontology superintended by Professor 

 Dames ; it is at the University that the second specimen of Arclice- 

 opterijx may be seen, for which £1000 was paid. It has the advantage 

 over the British Museum specimen, of having its head, and of show- 

 ing its fore limbs, whose metacarpal bones are not anchylosed im- 

 movably together as in existing birds, but are free and furnished 

 with clawed digits. 



(Herr Dames has published a most interesting memoir on this 

 specimen, a notice of which appeared in the Geological Magazine, 

 1884, Decade III. Vol. I. pp. 418-424, PI. XIV.) 



VI.—" CONE-IN-CONE." 1 



By Prof. J. S. Newberry, M.D., For. Memb. Geol. Soc. Lond. ; 

 Professor of Geology in Columbia College, New York. 



IN the June Number of the Gkologioal Magazine an abstract is 

 given of a paper on Cone-in-cone, read by Mr. John Young before 



1 The MS. of this article was unfortunately mislaid, and its publication con- 

 sequently delayed some months, for which the Editor begs to apologise. 



