12 Publications — Collections. 



buoh,* or Jearbook, containing full papers, with plates 

 and maps, published quarterly; the Abhandlungen, 

 embracing greater monographies, especially on paleon- 

 tology; and Special Maps, which are copied at the 

 institute upon order only. The publications are liberally 

 distributed throughout the scientific world, and in re- 

 turn, the Reichsanstalt has accumulated a library which, 

 in 18G8, contained 16,000 volumes and 4,000 maps. 

 The best specimens obtained on the explorations in the 

 field are arranged in the Museum of the Reichsanstalt, 

 occupying ten large halls in the palace. In 1868 this 

 museum contained 30,000 specimens of rocks, arranged 

 according to the geological formations, 13,000 minerals, 

 arranged in the same manner, 40,000 fossils of animal, 

 and 12,000 fossils of vegetable, origin ; also, 230 splendid 

 artificial crystals, prepared by Carl von Hauer. Besides, 

 the institution contains many unarranged specimens, and 

 also has liberally distributed collections to the educational 

 institutions of Austria. During the administration of 

 the Reichsanstalt, Haiclinger superintended the publica- 

 tion of the three volumes, large quarto, of "Abhand- 

 lungen," and the sixteen volumes, octavo, of the 

 " J a h r b u c h " of this institution, forming a very valuable 

 library of itself. Numerous maps and plates accompany 

 each of these large volumes, while more than one hun- 

 dred special maps, representing the geological and min- 

 eralogical features of limited districts of the realm, were 

 published besides. 



The energy of Haidinger is well indicated by the fact 

 that the direction of the work of the numerous geologists 

 in the field, the superintendence of the work at home in 

 the Reichsanstalt, the publication of the Jahrbuch and 

 and Abhandlungen, left him yet time for original inves- 



*Now perfected by the addition of Tscherraak's Mineralogische Mitthei- 

 lungen. 



