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ant increase of the lateral cerebellar lobes with progressive evolu- 
a 
reover, the supposition that the middle cerebellar lobe of 
the Masnialis was primarily the largest cerebellar lobe is sup- 
ported by embryological vires, that lobe being prominent in 
the embryonic phases of the h igher Mammalia, where it subse- 
~— tly becomes smaller than the lateral lobes. 
ie Vergletscherung der deutschen Alpen, thre Ursachen, 
perio Wiederkehr, und ihr Einfluss auf die Bodengestal- 
tung. |The Glaciation of the German Alps ; its causes, periodi- 
cal recurrence, and its influence on surface- configuration. Ge- 
krinte Preisschrift ; von Dr. ALBRECHT PEN pp. villi + 484, 
with 16 wood-cuts, 2 maps and 2 tables, nts Barth, 1882.— 
This important treatise is divided into three sections, viz: 
cupio- karat and concluding chapters, consisting res ectively z 
an admirable résumé of the sama of glacial es a 
Seeisa oh critical discussion of current theories of glaci cial ee 
afford decisive evidence, coming from diverse independent sources, 
of two widely separated 3 shame of extensive glaciation, with e 
equivocal sue of an neste epoch of less energetic ic 
w 
from the shareceed of its plant nomias} is a type of certain ob- 
ation of the breccia and soutanedst soeanuadigk of stream allu- 
vium in places; (@) considerable changes in the configuration of 
- Paget a on of the stream-channel below the level 
e br and (e) accumulation of the basal stratified beds 
(anter glacnschoter Jy she second ice-epoch to a depth of 200 m. 
(p. e relations among analogous formations occur else- 
2 yey the assemblage of phenomena the historical se- 
quence is thus interpreted: 
1. First glaciation and retreat of the 
2. Formation of a great alluvial depoaie: clothing of the oe 
of the Inn val ey by vegetation ; cementation of the deposit 
into the Héttingen breccia of to-day erosion of the pects 
aes and considerable deepening of the Inn valley. 
_ . 8, Probable re-distribution of the rocks of the central ren over 
she northern flanks, perhaps by a second cesses 
