Abstract
SWABIA, it need scarcely be said, lies to the southeast of Stuttgart—the classic ground of the Triassic Labyrinthodonts of Germany—and since it contains the same Triassic deposits, we should naturally expect to find therein the same species of this group of Amphibians. The present memoir, remarkable alike for the splendid plates with which it is illustrated, and for the care with which the specimens have been described, is devoted to making known to the scientific world the magnificent collection of Labyrinthodont remains which have been from time to time obtained from the Swabian and Würtemberg deposits, and are now preserved in the Museums at Stuttgart, Tübingen, and Munich. Of the seventeen plates with which this work is illustrated, a large proportion are folded ones of very considerable size, while all are especially noticeable for their beauty of execution. They appear to have been printed by some special process from photographs, the finely-preserved specimens of skulls standing out with wonderful clearness from a black background. Even more noteworthy than the unrivalled execution of the plates is the perfection and beauty of the specimens themselves; and we would especially direct attention to the magnificent skull of Metopias, represented in plates xii. and xiii. of the work before us, as being the finest Labyrinthodont specimen that has ever come under our notice.
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