Memoirs of the Royal Society of Naples 1

Abstract

THE greater number of the papers published in the last volume of the Atti of the Royal Society of Naples deal with geological and palæontological subjects connected with southern Italy. Dr. Maria Pasquale has prepared a catalogue of the fossil remains of Selachians, preserved with the University collections in Naples, and in various other museums in Italy. The majority of the specie were already known through the writings of Prof. O. G. Costa, who had originally formed the Neapolitan collection, and of Prof. Bassani, in whose custody the specimens now are. With the exception of one possibly Cretaceous species, all are Cainozoic, and no less than twenty-two species come from the pietra leccese (Middle Miocene).