ANNITEESARY ADDRESS OP THE PRESIDENT. xlv 



" Of not less importance to our knowledge. of the Upper Trias beds 

 of the Alps is the work of Prof. Suess on Eaibl, which is printed in 

 the last number of our Jahrbuch. 



** Allow me to specify, with regard to the Alpine country, the geo- 

 logical survey map of the Duchy of Styria by Dionys Stur, which 

 brings into play not less than seventy-seven different tints and in- 

 dications for the distinction of separate members of the formation 

 and different kinds of rock. 



" Por another highly important work concerning also the Alpine 

 and Carpathian countries we have to thank Mr. D. Stur, — ' Contri- 

 butions to our knowledge of the flora of the freshwater (]uartzites 

 of the Cougeria- and Cerithium-beds in the Vienna and Hungarian 

 basins'*, in which the flora of not less than forty-nine different 

 localities, with 233 species, is thoroughly described, and, with the 

 help of these remains, the geological age of every locality is esta- 

 blished. It is especially of far-reaching interest that a series of these 

 localities fills up the gap which exists in Switzerland between the 

 Oeningen formation and the glacial shaly beds of Utznach and 

 Diirnten. 



"And, besides the flora, we receive also important contributions to 

 the increase of our knowledge of the fauna of the newer Tertiary 

 deposits. The recently published seventeenth and eighteenth num- 

 bers of the great work by Dr. M. Homes, published by the Impe- 

 rial Geological Survey, on the fossil Mollusca of the Tertiary basin 

 of Vienna, are the last but one of the whole work, of which the last 

 will follow in the course of the present year. On the other hand, 

 for a truly splendid collection of the mammals from the brown coal 

 of Eibiswald we have to thank Mr. F. Melling. On this collection 

 Mr. E. Suess has given a preliminary notice f? and it is well fitted 

 to enlarge our knowledge of the higher classes of animals. 



" In the past year appeared also the geological map of Moravia and 

 Silesia, the work of Franz Foetterle, in two sheets, printed in colours 

 with forty-two different tints. 



"Yet one further discovery I must report in the Carpathian country, 

 made by Mr. Fr. Herbich, — the beds of Bucsecs, near Cronstadt, and 

 at Balan on the eastern frontier of Transylvania, rich in splendidly 

 preserved fossils belonging to various stages of the Jura formation. 

 On these Suess and I J gave a Report ; and it results that in them 

 several of the zones of the western countries of Europe are recog- 

 nizable. 



" Of great scientific as well as economic interest are the accurate 

 studies which Mr. Posepny has just published on the Salt-districts 

 of Transylvania §. This work, illustrated by numerous sketches and 

 maps and sections, will receive the greater recognition, inasmuch as 

 since the works of Fichtel very little has been made known on this 

 subject. 



" The conclusion of an important part of our labours will finally be 



* Ibid, 1867, p. 77. t im. 1867, Verb. p. 6. 



+ Ibid. 1865, Yerh. p. 255 ; 1866, Verb. p. 191 ; 1867, Verb. pp. 28, 126. 

 § Ibid. 1867, p. 475. 



