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Iain's Office,* have enabled me to visit during the summer of 1860 
the whole western side of the Vienna basin, and to measure altitudes 
fit for being made a basis of a tabular synopsis of the bathymetrical 
distribution of our tertiary marine fauna. M. de Schwabenau having 
kindly informed me of the discovery of a Tertiary bone-bed at 
Baltavar (W. Hungary), the Imperial Geological Museum entrusted 
me with a mission to this place, where, by long-continued diggings, I 
succeeded in finding, in an horizon which I think answers to the gravel 
of Belvedere (Vienna), remains of species most characteristic of the 
well-known Fauna of Pikermi, in Attica, — such as Machairodus cul- 
tridens, Hyaencb Hipparlonum, Dinotlierium sp., Rhinoceros sp., Sus 
Erymanthius, Antilope hrevicornis, Helladotherium Dunei-voyi, Hippo- 
therium gracile, &c. 
A rich collection of Pikermi fossils recently sent to the Imperial 
Museum by Baron Breuner-Felsach, then His Majesty's Ambassador 
at the Court of Athens, came in due time to confirm me iu the con- 
viction of the identity of my Second Mammalian Fauna of the Vienna 
basin (Inzersdorf, Belvedere) with those of Pikermi, Eppelsheim, and 
Mr. Lartet's "Miocene sup^rieur" (Cucuron, Vaucluse).t 
Other remains of Mammalia, preserved either in public or in 
private collections, have convinced me that our Vienna marine 
deposits, including remains of Mastodon anyustidens, Mast. tapiroideSj 
Anchitherium Aurelianense, and Listriodon spleiidens, answer exactly 
to M. Lartet's " Miocene moyen," an horizon to which, as proved by 
the specimens in the collection of the Joanneum at Gratz, the coal- 
bearing tertiaries of Parschlug, Eibiswald, Wies, and Aflohtz (Styria) 
must likewise be referred. 
The coal of Zemlye, near Totis (Hungary), including remains of 
Anthracotherium magnum, together with the deposits of Zouercado 
(Venetia), Cadibona (Piemont), and Kochette (Canton de Vaud), 
represents another and lower horizon, answering M. Lartet's " Miocene 
Inferieur," or the " Aquitanian strata " of the Helvetian Palaeontolo- 
gist, and the Fauna of which is anterior to the formation of the 
Vienna Basin in the strict sense of the term. 
Before general results can be drawn from the comparison of 
terrestrial Mammalian Faunae, the species of some of the most impor- 
tant families must be duly determined and limited, to obtain (at least 
partially) a basis such as has been obtained from the marine Fauna 
by the distinguished researches of MM. Homes, Reuss, d'Orbigny, &c. 
For obvious reasons Carnivora are constantly very inferior in 
individual number to their herbivorous contemporaries ; and conse- 
quently their fossil remains are comparatively scarce. Even in our 
country the individuals of Ursus spelceus, buried in one single 
cave under diluvian deposits, may in some cases be numbered by 
hundreds, and the remains of badgers are said to be equally frequent 
* Vienna Imperial Museum of Natural History, Antiquities, &c., as well as the 
I Imperial Gallery of Pictures, is under the control of His Majesty's Lord Cham- 
berlain's Office, from whose funds they receive their allowances. 
t Bulletin de la Soc. G^ol. de France, 1859, Vol. xvi. p. 476. 
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