42 GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



On the Tertiaries 0/ Hungary and Transylvania. 

 By Dr. Hornes. 



[Proceedings of the Imp. Geol. Institute of Vienna, Dec. 5, 1854.] 

 During the summer of 1854 Dr. Hornes made an excursion 

 through Hungar}'^ and Transylvania, both for the purpose of adding 

 to the palseontological collection of the Imperial Museum at Vienna, 

 and to collect materials for the completion of his work *'0n the 

 Tertiary Mollusca of the Vienna Basin." Dr. Hornes reports that 

 the lithological and palseontological points of similitude between the 

 tertiary deposits of the districts he explored and those of the Vienna 

 Basin are so evident *and so numerous that there can be little doubt 

 of their having been contemporaneous. 



The sea then occupying the Vienna Basin appears to have been the 

 connecting link between two large contemporaneous seas, one of which 

 covered the Upper Danubian Basin, whilst the other occupied what 

 is now the plains of Central Hungary ; nearly in the same way as at 

 present the Sea of Marmora forms the junction between the Black 

 and ^gean Seas. 



The tertiary deposits of Korod and Lapugy in Transylvania, of 

 Nemesest in Banat, of Baden, Steinabrunn, and Ottnang in Austria, 

 together with those of Vilshofen in Bavaria, of St. Gallen in Switzer- 

 land, and of Montpellier, Bordeaux, and Touraine in France, the 

 faunas of all of which (with some local modifications excepted) present 

 a similar character, may serve to indicate the extent and situation of 

 the extensive sea, which during the tertiary period covered a consider- 

 able portion of Central Europe, having an east and west direction. 



The locality of Lapugy is remarkable for the richness of its fossil 

 fauna ; and some of the shells still retain traces of the coloration by 

 which their surfaces were ornamented during hfe. 



Eocene remains have likewise been found in the lignitiferous 

 deposits of Gran in Hungary. [Count M.] 



On the Fossil Crustacea /rom near Verona. 

 By Prof. T. Catullo. 

 [Proceedings of the Imp. Geol. lastitute of Vienna, Nov. 28, 1854.] 

 Several species of Crustacea^ viz. Cancer punctatus, Desm., C. 

 Boscii, Desm., Flatycarcinus Beaumontii, Edw., and PL paguruSi 

 Edw., have been previously obtained by Prof. Catullo from the Calcaire 

 grossier of the environs of Verona and Vicenza. The Professor now 

 notices another form, determined by M. Desmarest as Ranina 

 Aldrovandiy from the Eocene limestone of Valdonega ; and several 

 crustaceans from the slaty limestone in the Valley of Vestina near 

 Monte Bolca, which occur under circumstances similar to those in 

 which the fossil fishes of that locality are met with ; the impression 

 of the fossil not being fully obtained except by splitting the fossil- 

 iferous beds transversely. The crustacean remains from the Vestina 

 Valley belong to the Astacini family, but are too imperfectly pre- 

 served to admit of specific determination. The largest and best- 

 preserved specimens among them remind one forcibly of Palinurus 

 communis, at present inhabiting the Mediterranean and the Ocean. 



[Count M.] 



