1. Über rasenilden, ringsteadiiden und pictoniiden des nördlichen Frankenjura

2. Neue dipteren (brachycera et cyclorhapha) aus dem oberoligozan von Rott

Der achte internationale Geologen-Kongress (Paris 1900) hat die Herausgabe eines Werkes beschlossen, dessen Hauptwert in der Wiederverf.f-fentlichung der Originale der fossilen Arten liegen soll- unter besonderer Berücksichtigung zunächst der alteren Formen u. derjenigen, deren Auffindung in der Litteratur mit Schwierigkeiten verknüpft ist. - Eine aus Vertretern der verschiedenen Lander zusammengesetzte Com-mission wurde mit der Aufgabe betraut, das Programm des Werkes zu entwerfen. Danach soll jede Art auf einem besonderen Blatt erscheinen und zwar:

1.   Mit Wiedergabe ded ursprünglichen Original-Abbildung;

2.  Mit ded Photographie ded Originals selbst;

3.   Mit ded Wiederver.-iffentli-chung der vollständigen Diagnose und

Le dernier Congrès Géolo-gique International (Paris 1900) a adopté en principe la fondation d'une publication pa- : léontologique dont le but est de reediter les types des espèces fossiles, en s’attachant de pré-férence aux formes anciennes et à celles dont la recherche biblio-graphique est difficile. - Une Commission internationale a été chargéed’élaborerle programme de cette publication. Il a été décidé que chaque espèce serait publiée sur flehe afin de per-mettre Tadoption de différents modes de classement. <...>

Earthquakes are one of the greatest natural hazards humans face. During the twentieth century alone, over two million people died during strong ground shaking, attendant fires, tsunamis and landslides. Most recently, in May 2008, about 80 000 people died in an earthquake in Sichuan Province in China and, earlier, on 26 December 2004, more than 200 000 people lost their lives to the tsunami resulting from the great earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. In December 2003, the ancient city of Bam in Iran was destroyed by an earthquake, with the loss of over 30 000 lives. The worst disaster in modern times occurred in China in July 1976, when an entire city was destroyed and over 240 000 people killed in less than six minutes. Earlier, in 1556, an earthquake in north-central China killed an estimated 800 000 people, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. <...>

Our knowledge of bird evolution was incomplete for a long time, especially regarding the Mesozoic, because of a relative lack of fossils for significant periods of this group’s history. Things have considerably improved over the last twenty years, in particular following the discovery of numerous Cretaceous birds, especially in China, but also in other regions of the world (South America, Europe, etc.). Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, bird fossils are not really rare and are even particularly abundant at localities with exceptional preservation (Lagerstätten), like, for example, the Lower Cretaceous lacustrine deposits in North-East China, or the Eocene Messel Pit, in Germany.  <...>