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THESE numbers of the Proceedings of the Geological Society contain many useful papers, chiefly, however, of local interest. Felix Karrer notes the occurrence of mammoth remains at Vienna. They were obtained during the sinking of a well in a “diluvial” (glacial) deposit at a depth of 9 fath. 3 ft. from the surface. Dr. Lenz also has a short reference to a similar discovery of the teeth of a young mammoth in a brown laminated loam near No-wakmühle. Dr. Stur gives an interesting account of his own and Baron Petrino's observations on the superficial deposits in the basin of the Dniester in Galicia and Buko-wina. A great accumulation of loess covers a wide area in that district, the land shells and mammalian remains in which enable these geologists to correlate it with the loess of the Rhine and other regions. We observe, in No. II, an important table showing Dr. C. E. Weis's systematic arrangement of the carboniferous formation and the rothliegendes formation of the Saar-Rhine district, which is well worth the attention of English geologists. The usual admirable literary notices, and other miscellaneous matter, are appended to each number of the Proceedings.
Verhandlungen der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt.
Nos. 11 to 18. (Vienna.)
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Verhandlungen der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt . Nature 7, 442 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007442a0
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