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GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
GEOLOGY OF EGYPT AND OF THE Lipyan Desert.—Prof. Carl 
Zittel has published in the Abhandlungen of the Royal Academy 
of Munich for 1880, an essay on the above subject. It is largely 
based on the observations and collections of Schweinfurth and 
Gissfeld. As is known, the order of succession of the forma- 
tions in Northern Africa is from the older in the south to the later 
in the north. An exception to this is found in the region border- 
ing the Red sea, where a long extension northward of the primi- 
tive Azoic formation exists. Dr. Zittel shows that the greater 
part of the region west of this primitive plateau consists of the 
upper and lower Nummulitic Eocene. To the south and south- 
west the Cenomanian Cretaceous comes to the surface, the lower 
beds especially appearing from beneath lines of Eocene or upper 
Cenomanian bluffs. The oases are excavations in the latter forma- 
tions, whose bottoms consist of the Lower Cenomanian. 
VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OF INDIA.—Dr. Lydekker con- 
tinues to make important contributions to this subject. : His 
latest is a memoir on the Siwalik and Narbada Proboscidia, in 
which a great deal of light is thrown on the structure of the den- 
tition of many of the species. Two species are named for the 
first time, Dinotherium sindiense and Mastodon falconeri (a tr iloph- 
odont), while several others are described for the first time under 
MS. names of Falconer. In a preface the author puts the Indian 
_ species of RKhinoceride in order, and gives information not hith- 
_ erto accessible, by which they may be referred to their proper 
genera. 
In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1880, Dr. 
Lydekker gives a synopsis of the species of extinct Vertebrata 
hitherto found in the peninsula of India. He enumerates twenty- 
eight species of fishes, mostly Paleozoic; seventeen of Selachii, 
mostly Mesozoic; thirty-nine Reptilia and Batrachia, divided 
