202 Dr A. Philippi on the Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the 
the 6th, his brother, chef d’escadron d’artillerie, who was pre- 
sent at the time of his death, his numerous friends, his col- 
leagues of the Chamber of Deputies, of the Geological So- 
ciety, of the Philomathie Society, and his brother officers, 
assembled to convey his mortal remains to their final resting 
place, which was by the side of his younger brother, who died 
in 1829. 
Sit illis terra levis ! 
Twice had our fellow-member enjoyed the honour of being 
on the list of candidates for admission into the Geological 
Section of the Academy of Sciences, and he had the prospect 
of being elected at the next vacancy. 
There were found in his portfolio many unpublished notes 
on his travels in Greece, Africa, and the interior of France, 
on the public finances, and, finally, the first part of a great 
work on the Roman roads in Gaul. Death overtook him in 
the midst of his labours, at a period when, as with so many 
other men of genius, knowing that there remained for him 
much to do, he believed that he had still a long time to live. 
Comparative Remarks on the Recent and Fossil Mollusca of the 
South of Italy, and more particularly of Sicily. By Dr A. 
PHILIPPI. 
In comparing the Molluscous Fauna of the Sicilian Seas* 
with the Mollusca which, during the tertiary period, were 
contained in the seas out of which a large portion of Sicily 
and Calabria was elevated, the following are the principal 
questions that present themselves :—Ils¢, Were the seas at 
the time of the tertiary period generally richer or poorer in 
mollusea than they are at present? 2d, How many of the 
species living at the present day existed at that time, and 
survived the catastrophes which separate the tertiary period 
* As connected with this subject we would refer our readers to an in- 
teresting Memoir by Dr Philippi, on the Molluscous Animals of South 
Italy, compared with those of other regions ; translated in the first num- 
ber of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society—a periodical to 
which we wish all success.—ED. 
