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THE (iHOLOdlST. 
clscwlicrc within the Vicnna-Imsin, and possibly identical -u ilh that 
of Nuceto, referred to by M. Gastaldi to lUiiii. vriindus, Cuv. Chev. 
Fr. de Hauer has remarked, respectin<>' the stratigraphical circum- 
stances, that the coal of Breemberg (W. Hiingary) may be of moi'c 
ancient date than the lowei'most marine deposits of the Vienna basin. 
Prof. E. 8uess on some Fonttil Bovirloi. Proceed. Imp. Geol. Institute 
of Vienna, March 29, 1869. 
The Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna has purchased a col- 
lection of mammalian remains obtained fi-om the Galician Loess, 
an ancient loam deposited in the valleys of the rivers Wistock and 
Dunajec. This region, long ago renowned for its abundance of 
fossil remains, is no less conspicuous for the uniformity of its ancient 
fauna, represented only by three herbivorous species — Bospriscus, Bos 
primigenius, and Elcphas pr'm 'ujenim (the last by far the most preva- 
lent). The skulls of the two species of Bos offer very strildng 
differences in their structure and proportions. In Bos priscm the 
frontal bone is vaulted, and has no superior edge prominent over the 
sm-face of the occipital bone ; the basis of the horns is somewhat 
beneath the upper frontal edge ; the horns are proportionally short, 
strong, directed horizontally outwards, with ends slightly curved up- 
wards ; the orbits are neai'ly beneath the bases of the horn-roots. 
Bos irrimigeidus has a nari'ow concave forehead, formijig upwards a 
strong edge prominent over the sm-face of the occipital ; the horns 
are inserted exactly on the upper margin of the frontal, and are 
longer and more curved than those of B. priscus ; they are dii'ected 
horizontally outwards, then inclined inwards with ends slightly 
curved downwards. The orbits are far beneath the roots of the 
horns, with a deep depression in the middle of the forehead between 
them. 
Oh Listriodon. Prof. E. Suess. Proceed. Imp. Geol. Institute of 
Vienna, March 29, 1859. 
A molar of Listriodon sjdendens, H. v. Meyer, {Tainrotlieriimi of 
some French pateontologists) has been recently foimd in the Leitha 
limestone of Fiinfkirchen, Central Hungary. The same species is 
known to occur in the Leitha Mountains, between Austria and 
Hungary ; and in France, Department du Gers and Department de 
la Drome ; a proof that the famia of the epoch, as the subsequent one 
of Eppelsheim, far from being a merely local one, extended over a 
large portion of Europe. 
Frof. TJuger on the Plants of Egypt. Proceed. Imp. Academy, 
Vienna, July 14, 1859. 
Among the plants, the remains of which are to be found in 
sepulchres, or fig-ured on the monuments, etc. of Egypt, some fifty 
