This volume documents the show The Song of the Stars, a solo exhibition of paintings by French artist Fabienne Verdier (b.1962) at the Musee Unterlinden in Colmar. Her work is presented alongside ancient and modern art in the museum's permanent collection, creating a kind of dialogue between the two. The central body of work reproduced here, Rainbows, was inspired by the range of colour and the aura of light in the Issenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald, one of the highlights of the museum's holdings. In 66 works in the Rainbows series, Verdier reflects on the depiction of death no longer seen as an ending but rather as a trace of energy that is released for the living. The connection between man and cosmos, and the vital energy of the universe, is the theme at the heart of this work. Text in English and French.

The present paper describes a molluscan occurrence, rich in macrofossils, of the Burdi- galian north of Fels am Wagram in Lower Austria. In the course of several years, various gentlemen and the author had collected i.a. a rich microfauna which had not yet been known to exist in the Austrian Burdigalian and which made the beds-of little local extent- appear to be particularly interesting. There were established 166 species and subspecies (thereof described Lamellibranchiata: 48, Scaphopoda: 1, Gastropoda: 47), the most important of which were dipicted. A supple- ment to the systematic part shows the accompanying fauna so as to furnish as complete as possible a faunal picture. As regards the Austrian Miocene there were found some new genera: Cyrtodaria DAUDIN 1799, Angulus Mergerle von MUEHLFELD 1811, Burtinella MOERCH 1861, Drepanocheilus MEEK and many new species marked with a cross (+) in the comparative list of faunas. Moreover, the following species and subspecies were newly described: Astarte (Tridonta) levigrandis nov. spec. Cardium (Cardium) ritter-gulderi nov. spec. Cardium (Cerastoderma) edule felsense nov. subspec. Cardium (Rudicardium) grande tereticostales nov. subspec. Dentalium (Antale) kickxi transiens nov. subspec.