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Basin.' It is distributed as a free gift or on terras of exchange to 130 

 Austrian and 170 foreign institutes or persons. 



2. ' Jalirbueli der k. k. geologisclien lleicbsanstalt,' of which nine vokimes 

 have been issued, containing contributions by members of the Institute 

 and others, on tlie Geology of Austria, and kindred subjects, and compris- 

 ing also the Proceedings of the Institute at its meetings, and reports of 

 tlio exploratory excursions. The ' Jahrbuch' is distributed like the ' Ab- 

 handlungen,' but on a somewhat more extended scale, to 473 Austrian and 

 202 foreign institutes or individual persons. 



III. A Collection of Crystals of Salts (M. Hauer), obtained in the 

 chemical laboratory of the Institute. 



IV. A Collection of Specimens of Fossil Fuel (M. Foetterle), consisting of 

 peat, lignite, brown coal, black coal, and anthracite, of difl'erent periods, from 

 modern deposits, through the Miocene and Eocene strata, chalk, and lias, 

 down to the true coal-measures, and from localities in Bohemia, Moravia, 

 and Silesia, Galicia, Hungary, Transylvania, the Military Border, Croatia, 

 and Esclavonia, and along the Alps, from the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, 

 Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, Stiria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Dal- 

 matia. 



The collection of Specimens of Fossil Fuel was collected by the Im- 

 perial Geological Institute at the request of the Austrian Central Exhibi- 

 tion Committee. Letters were issued to the owners and superintendents 

 of all the mines in the Empire, and the Institute was thus largely supplied 

 with specimens, so that the exhibited collection fairly represents this de- 

 partment of Austrian mineral wealth. 



The number of tons of coal raised in 1860 in the different provinces, as 

 represented in the list W'hich accompanies the specimens, is — 



Tons. 



Bohemia 692,840 



Moravia and Silesia 719,300 



Galicia 56,000 



Hungary and Banat 297,100 



Transylvania, Military Border, Croatia, Slavonia . . 10,180 



Austria . . ' 121,260 



Styria 112,080 



Carintliia 86,450 



Carniola . 7370 



Dalmatia 6500 



Total 2,059,120 



The total amount statistically registered being about 3'5 millions of tons. 



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CoTTESwoLD Cf.VB.—Juli/ 23;'(Z.— The meeting took place at Frocester 

 Station, whence the members proceeded to the famous section of Frocester 

 Hill locally known as the Old Quarr, On arrival there, some labourers, 

 und(>r the direction of Mr. E. Witchell, cleared away to some extent the 

 rubble which covers the thin "ammonite-bed." Frocester Hill aflbrds 

 cue of the finest exposures of the Inferior Oolite in the country, and 

 yields to research an abundance of the choicest fossils ; so that some of 



