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.................................................................... Number of ex.

9) Foundlings of petrefacts of different formations found in the Diluvial plain

of North Germany ............................................ 50

10) Copperslate and Magnesian limestone ......... 20

........................................................ Summa 3000

Most of the localities of III chief group are nicely complete, the richest of them is the middlerhinish Fauna of the Tertiary, the fishes therin are so completely represented that they will not easely to be found so in any other collection, the classes of higher vetebra are not quite as rich neither the formations of Devon, Trias and Magnesian limestone.

IV. CHIEF DIVISION.
FRANCE, BELGIAN AND HOLLAND.

A) NORTH OF FRANCE.

................................................................. Number of ex.

1) Transtive formations of the Bretagne............. 30

2) Jura of Calvados pp....................................... 220

3) Chalk of the North of France ......................... 90

4) Tertiary formations of the North of France:

a) Basin of Paris and of the Chanpagne .............. 710

b) Touraine ...................................................... 320

c) Ardennes, Loire inférieure, Laon, Sarthe pp... 130

d) Oise ............................................................. 140

.......................................................... Summa 1640

B) SOUTH OF FRANCE

1) Jua and Chalk ............................................... 300

2) Tertiary formations of the North of France:

a) Basin of Bordeaux and Dax ............................ 740

b) Roussillon .................................................... 310

c) Drome, haute Rive ........................................ 220

.......................................................... Summa 1570

C) BELGIAN AND HOLLAND.

1) Belgian carboniferous limstone ..................... 450

2) Chalk from Mastricht, Limburg pp ................. 540

3) Belgian Tertiary formations ........................... 470

...........................................................Summa 1460

From different districts of France I possess a large suit yet unpaked and for that reason not yet registered. It will be some thousand exemplars. The same case is with a smaller collection of Belgian and Holland, both will nicely complete the IV Chief division.

From Spain, Portugal, Danemark and the Turkey I possess no petrefacts. Some Chief countries of Europe, as England, Italy, Russia and Sweden are not richly represented, also not the four other parts of the globe. As they form notwithstanding chief

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groups in a geographically divide collection, they follow as such, if also poorly represented.

V. CHIEF GROUP.
ENGLAND.

.................................................................... Number of ex.

1) Limestone of Devon ....................................... 10

2) Jura ............................................................... 15

3) Tertiary (Barton) ............................................ 50

............................................................. Summa 75

VI. CHIEF GROUP.
SWEDEN

Fauna of Silurformation of the isle of Gothland .... 250

VII. CHIEF GROUP.
ITALY.

1) Tertiary formations (subappenine) .................... 50

2) Pliocen and Miocen of Sicily ............................ 360

.............................................................. Summa 410

VIII. CHIEF GROUP.
RUSSIA.

1) Silurformation from the environs of Petersburg .. 40

2) Jura from the environs of Muscovy ..................... 220

................................................................. Summa 260

IX. CHIEF GROUP.
ASIA.

1) Devonish fauna of Siberia .................................. 20

2) Trias and Lias of Thibeth .................................... 40

3) Tertiary formations of Japan ............................... 6

..................................................................Summa 66

X. CHIEF GROUP.
AMERIKA.

Devon from Jova etc. .............................................. 50

XI. CHIEF GROUP.
AUSTRALIA.

The fossil giant birds (Moa) from Newsealand in 5 genera

and 7 different species ........................................... 180