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number of Gosau fossils is 443, amongst which are 34 Foraminifera, 

 140 Anthozoa, 14 Bryozoa, and 15 Entomostraca. The Gasteropods 

 have 135, and the Conchifera 80 species. The remaining number 

 is made up of Radiaria, Brachiopods, Cephalopods, Annehdes, and 

 Rudista. 



After showing that the Gosau beds have the greatest affinity with 

 D'Orbigny's Systeme Turonien, the author describes the geological 

 features of the beds near the Wolfgang Lake, which, although their 

 organic contents are not so abundant as in the Gosau Valley, evi- 

 dently belong to the same system. In the second part of his memoir^ 

 viz. paloeontological observations on the Gosau beds, the author prm- 

 cipally directs his attention to the Foraminifera, Anthozoa, Bryozoa, 

 and Entomostraca, with the study of some of which he had been 

 occupied for many years. These are fully described, and the figures 

 by which they are illustrated, particularly the Corals, are admirably 

 executed. 



But time would not permit me to give, nor would you have patience 

 to listen to, the long list of recent papers and publications on different 

 branches of geological investigation to be found in the various 

 scientific periodicals of Germany. The Journal of the Imperial Geo- 

 logical Institute of Vienna, the Journal of the German Geological 

 Society, as well as the Jahrbuch of Leonhard and Bronn, and the 

 Palseontographica of Diinker and Herman v. Meyer, are full of new 

 and valuable information. I must, however, specially allude to the 

 last two numbers of the last-mentioned work, which have appeared 

 during the last year. The memoir by Dr. Jordan and Herman v. 

 Meyer on the Crustacea of the Coal Formation of Saarbriick, and 

 particularly the account of the fossil insects of the same formation 

 by Dr. Goldenberg, are most interesting ; the latter especially, as it is 

 only very recently that organic remains of this class have been found 

 in these beds, the oldest in which they have hitherto been met with. 



Tertiary Geology. 



M. Hebert, so well known for his numerous and valuable com- 

 munications on the tertiary formations of the continent, has, in con- 

 junction with M. E. Renevier of Lausanne, published in the Bul- 

 letin of the Statistical Society of the Department of the Isere, an 

 interesting *' Memoir on the Fossils of the Upper Nummulitic Forma- 

 tion in the neighbourhood of Gap, the Diablerets, and other locali- 

 ties in Savoy." The fossils with which the Nummulites are associated 

 in these localities, which M. Renevier has himself explored, are such 

 as are generally considered to belong to a more recent period than 

 that to which the Nummulites have been hitherto referred. The 

 beds in general show a remarkable identity and analogy as to their 

 fauna with that of Ronca, already described by M. Brongniart in his 

 " Memoir on the Vicentin ;" on the other hand, it shows great 

 discrepances with the nummulitic beds of Nice, Corbieres, and 

 Biaritz. 



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