Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 18. (Budapest 1921)
Éhik, Gy.: The glacial-theories in the light of biological investigation
Dr. .J. ÉHIK are occupied by new forws, constituting the steppe fauna. This latter fauna is a conglomerate partly consisting of thermophil elements (with a southern origin) and partly of some arctic forms left behind, as well as of some eastern species. 5. The formation of forest-zones in the North of Europe, characterized by special faunistical elements, belongs also to that period. The migration of the fauna and flora, taking place from North to South, might be so easily controled that I do .not find any reason for enumerating at this place special proofs with respect to this biogeographic phenomenon, and so I think that the maps here added will be rather true, at least in bold outline. Still the question arises, how far 1 succeeded to represent accurately the motion of the ice? An answer with respect to this shall be given hereafter. At present I should like to give an oversight of the different faunae. Future investigations will probably ascertain that the thermophil fauna — recorded by Dr. KORMOS as preglacial. 1 — existed as early as the lower Pleistocene strata of Germany, as marked on my map and proved, up to now, by the fossil faunae of Mauer and Mosbach. 2 The more southwards we go, the more frequent is the occurrence of such faunae, and we will find some spots, where this thermophil fauna persists through the whole Quaternary. Such a territory is represented for instance by the southern parts of Hungary, offering a rich material of this kind. 3 A solution of the problem regarding the chronological succession of these faunae was attempted by Prof. Dr. MÉHELY in his classical work on the Fibrinae of Hungary. He was the first to remark the existence of chronological differences occurring between the various thermophil faunae. I have no intention to go into further details concerning the quoted publication, but I should like to direct the attention to 1 T. K ORMOS , Die phylogenetische und zoogeographische Bedeutung präglazialer Faunen. Verhandl. d. k. k. /.oui. bot. Gesellsch. in Wien. 1914. p. 218—238. 2 E. KOKEN, Die Geologie und Tierwelt der paläolithischen Kulturstätten Deutschlands. (R. R. SCHMIDT, Die diluviale Vorzeil Deutschlands. Stuttgart. 1912.) Pag. 1H0 el 184. 3 J. ÉNIK, Die präglaziale Fauna von Brassó. Földtani Közlöny Bd. XLIII. (1913.) Pag. 136—150. K OKMOS T., Három uj ragadozó a Püspökfürdő melletti Somlyóhegy preglaeiális rétegeiből. Magy. kir. Föld. Int. Evkönyve. XXII. köt. 3. füzet. KORMOS T,A villányi hegység preglaeiális képződményei és faunájuk. Magy. kir. Földi. Int. Évi Jelentés 1916. MÉHELY L., Prospalax prisons (Nhrg.) a mai Spalaxok pliocaenkori őse. Magy. Tud. Akad. Math. Term. tud. Közi. XXX. köt. 2. sz. Budapest. 1898. A. NEHRING , Über mehrere neue Spalax-Arten. Sitz. Ber. d. Ges. Nat.-forsch. Freunde zu Berlin. 1897.
