1883,] Mineralogy. 537 
bones be next year? Not fossilized certainly. Fossil bones may 
be split by frost, but if the frost attacks them before they are 
fossilized, their chances of being preserved are small indeed ! 
Quaternary—The remains of Colymdus septentrionatis Linn, 
have been discovered by E. T. Newton, in the Mundesley River 
bed, Norfolk, England. ‘The arguments respecting the Loess are 
still continued. Dr. A. Nehring, of Berlin, answers H. H. Howorth, 
in the February number of the Geologicol Magazine. He gives a 
list of the steppe animals found in the European Loess (Lagomys, 
Dipus, Spermophilus, Arctomys, Cricetus, Hystrix, Arvicola, 
Equus, Antilope), and asserts his belief that a considerable part of 
Germany or Central Europe once had a steppe fauna and flora. 
This fauna was interposed between the Arctic fauna of the glacial 
period, and the forest fauna of the Neolithic epoch. Postulating 
a fauna and flora like that of East Russia and West Siberia, Dr. 
Nehring maintains that the wind may have played an important 
part in the formation of the loess-like deposits of many 
places in Central Europe. . H. Howorth concludes his 
“ Traces of a great Post-glacial flood ” in the March number of 
€ same magazine. The marine drift, in which littoral and 
deep-sea shells are often found confusedly heaped together, in 
some cases with little mixture of sand or shingle, and confined to 
small areas, unaccompanied by those sheets of silt which must 
have remained had subsidence been the cause of its formation, 
yields, in Mr. Howorth’s belief, conclusive evidence of a great wave 
of waters, carrying the shells to vatying heights and distances ac- 
cording to the conformation of the coast. 
MINERALOGY .' 
THE NOMENCLATURE or METEORITES.—As a result of a careful 
study and classification of the 306 meteorites in the collection of 
ag y the valuable work of the authors, our knowledge of 
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but it 
~~ "*S in the following classified list : 
" METEORITE. 
L Houostperrre, A 
ek - Octibbehite, tazewellite, nelsonite, catarinite, braunite, caillite, schwetzite, 
7 st Sewellite, campbellite, burlingtonite, tuczonite, lenartite. 
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: eet! by Professor H. CARVILL Lewis, Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 
: whom communications, papers for review, etc., should be sent. 
