Eocene Fossils at Murren

Abstract

I HAVE read with surprise the extracts from the letter which you have received from Dr. Fellenberg on this subject. Of course it has long been known that there are Eocene strata at Murren. But below them lie calcareous rocks coloured on the Swiss map as Malm, These are so described on p. 211 of the “Livret Guide,” published by the International Geological Congress which met this autumn at Zürich. During the subsequent excursion, under the able guidance of Prof. Renevier, Prof. Golliez, and M. Lugeon, we were taken to Murren and shown these rocks, and Prof. Golliez gave us the reasons which had led some geologists to regard them as Trias rather than Malm. It was in these calcareous beds that the layer containing nummulites was met with. The train was just starting, and we had to leave, but the find excited so much interest that M. Lugeon returned to Murren the next day, with some of the party, and verified the exact locality.