GEOLOGICAL MEMOIKS. 



Wesel and Weber have named it Hypnum. lycopodioides ] for- 

 getting, seemingly, that this name had been long since appropriated 

 to a recent species, quite different. [C. J . F. Bunbury.] 



On the Teetiary Beds of Sotzka, Styria. By Dr. Eolle. 

 [Proceed. Imper. Acad. Vienna. April 22, 1858.] 

 Abundant as is the fossil flora preserved in the lignite-beds of this 

 locality, the discovery of animal remains was wanting for the precise 

 determination of their geological age. Dr. Eolle has now found in 

 them a number of marine and fresh-water species, which, with one 

 exception, not being known to occur in other localities, prove the 

 Sotzka Tertiaries to be of more ancient date than those of the 

 Vienna Basin. The opinion (first promulgated by L. v. Buch and 

 since held by Prof. Heer) of the Sotzka strata being coeval with 

 those of Eibiswald, Johnsdorf, Parschlug, &c., must therefore give 

 way to that published by Prof. linger in his first descriptions of the 

 Sotzka Flora ; and these Tertiaries are to be parallelized with the 

 middle, or at least with the uppermost, strata of the Sotzka Basin. 



[Count M.] 



On the Danubian Tertiaries. 



By MM. Sandberger and Gumbel. 



[Proceed. Imper. Acad. Vienna, June 10, 1858.] 



A belt of Tertiary deposits, of variable breadth, runs along the 

 northern slope of the Alps from Marseilles to Vienna, forming the 

 so-called " Upper Danubian Basin," the greatest breadth of which 

 lies at and around Munich. The real age of these Tertiaries, in 

 comparison with the Molasse of Switzerland, and with the Mayence 

 and Vienna Basins, has long remained an unsettled question ; but 

 MM. Gumbel and Sandberger have now found, immediately above 

 the Nummulitic (Eocene) strata of Bavaria, Oligocene deposits with 

 beds of pitch-coal, gradually disappearing to the east and west, and 

 corresponding, geologically and palaeontologically, with the Cyrena- 

 beds of the Mayence Basin. The marine deposits of Thaunen near 

 Kempten, of Simmsee and Wagingersee, together with the lower 

 strata near Passau, represent, within the upper Danubian Basin, the 

 genuine Miocene deposits of Switzerland and the Vienna Basin ; 

 while the Littorinella-beds of the Mayence Basin, the upper fresh- 

 water Molasse of Switzerland, and the lignitiferous tertiaries of 

 Wildshut and Thomasroith (Upper Austria) find their analogues in 

 the freshwater deposits of Irsee, Irschenberg, and Weyam, the 

 upper strata of Passau, the beds of tertiary coal near Eatisbon and 

 Abbach, and the strata near Ulm, Giinzburg, and Kirchberg along 

 the upper course of the Danube. [Count M.] 



