IxXXvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



of the Universal Exhibition at Paris, pubUshed an interesting volume 

 respecting the mines and mineral wealth of the Austrian empire, 

 entitled, " Geological View of the Mining Industry of the Austrian 

 Monarchy," prepared and arranged by Herr v. Hauer and Herr 

 Foetterle. It is well arranged under the diiferent heads of metals, 

 iron (special), salt, coal, &c. This is preceded by a geological sketch 

 of the Empire divided into four great groups or districts. These 

 are — 1. Bohemo-Moravo-Silesian district; 2. Alpine district; 3. 

 Carpathian district ; 4. Tertiary and alluvial plains. All the geo- 

 logical formations occurring in each are systematically arranged and 

 their geographical boundaries pointed out, with a sketch of the 

 principal physical features of each formation. It is impossible to 

 estimate too highly the importance of the work as a book of refer- 

 ence for the geological formations of the diiferent portions of the 

 Austrian Empire. 



We are greatly indebted to Count Marschall of Vienna for having 

 undertaken to supply us with MS. notes of the proceedings of the 

 Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, by which we have been put in 

 possession of their proceedings long before the printed notices could 

 otherwise have reached us. In one of his recent communications to 

 Mr. Jones, who is the channel through whom this correspondence is 

 carried on, we have an abstract of Director Haidinger's address at 

 the commencement of the present session. From this we learn that 

 the Geological Survey of Austria is progressing rapidly and satis- 

 factorily. Since the death of M. Czjzek, the survey of Bohemia 

 has been entrusted to Dr. Hochstetter, who, in the distribution of 

 the different districts, has reserved to himself the N.E. portion as well 

 as the communication with the Saxon geologists, especially with Prof. 

 Cotta, with the view of connecting his map of the frontier district 

 with the surveys already executed by order of the Saxon government. 

 The districts south of the river Drave are already so far surveyed 

 that the Institute has now sufficient materials in hand to enable 

 them to construct the geological map of the whole of the l)uchy of 

 Carinthia, together with portions of Carniola, Goritzia, and the Vene- 

 tian territory. The Chevalier von Hauer has carefully examined the 

 country across the Alps, from Passau on the Danube to Duino on 

 the shores of the Adriatic, in order to exhibit to the meeting of 

 German naturalists, which was to have been held at Vienna in Sep- 

 tember last, a complete section of the whole geological structure of 

 the Alpine chain. This meeting, as has been already mentioned, 

 was postponed to the present year, in consequence of the prevailing 

 epidemic. The environs of Tured on the shores of Lake Balaton, in 

 Hungary, have been surveyed by the Chevalier Zepharovich, and 

 considerable progress has also been made in the geological survey of 

 portions of Styria. 



The Chevalier v. Hauer and M. Foetterle, ably assisted by Dr. 

 Homes, have completed the rearrangement of the most characteristic 

 collection hitherto made of the fossils of the secondary deposits of 

 the Alps and the Carpathians, and of the nummulitic and other upper 

 tertiary beds. These latter connect the whole of this new series with 



