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Basin.' It is distributed as a free gift or on terms of exchange to 130 
Austrian and 170 foreign institutes or persons. 
2. ' Jahrbucli der k. k. geologisclien Keichsanstalt,' of which nine volumes 
have been issued, containing contributions by members of the Institute 
and others, on the Geology of Austria, and kindred subjects, and compris- 
ing also the Proceedings of the Institute at its meetings, and reports of 
the exploratory excursions. The 'Jahrbucli' is distributed like the ' Ab- 
handlungen,' but on a somewhat more extended scale, to 473 Austrian and 
292 foreign institutes or individual persons. 
III. A Collection of Crystals of Salts (^I. 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 different 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 which accompanies the specimens, is — 
Tons. 
Bohemia 692,840 
Moravia and Silesia 719,300 
Galicia 56,000 
Huugary and Banat ....... 297,100 
Transylvania, Military Border, Croatia, Slavonia . . 10,180 
Austria . . * 121,260 
Styria 112,080 
Carinthia 36,450 
Cai-uiola 7370 
Dalmatia 6500 
Total 2,059,120 
The total amount statistically registered being about 3 5 millions of tons. 
PROCEEDINGS OF GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. 
CoTTESwoLD Club. — July 23rc?. — 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, 
under the direction of Mr. E. Witchell, cleared away to some extent the 
rubble which covers the thin " ammonite-bed." Frocester Hill affords 
one 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 
