96 Obituary — Eugene Eudes-Deslongchamps. 



Brachiopoda. About this time he accepted the chair of Zoology at 

 the Faculte des Sciences of Caen, with which institution he was 

 connected for many years, and he subsequently became in addition 

 Professor of Geology and Dean in 1861. His work had already 

 secured for him a wide reputation both at home and abroad, and he 

 was elected Correspondent of the Institut and Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the Society of Naturalists of Moscow and of the Geological 

 Society of London. In 1863 he was appointed Secretary of the 

 Linnean Society of Normandy, a post which he held till 1867, after 

 which he served for a year as Corresponding Secretary. 



In 1864 he published as a Doctoral Thesis his greatest strati- 

 graphical work, " Etudes sur les etages Jurassiques inferieurs de la 

 Normandie " ; in the same year, the best results of his zoological 

 researches were issued in his " Recherches sur l'organisation du 

 Manteau chez les Brachiopodes Articules," to the application of which 

 to the classification of the group he frequently returned, but which 

 he did not live to complete. 



After his father's death in 1867, the younger Eudes-Deslong- 

 champs devoted himself to the completion of the researches of the 

 former on the Teleosaurs ; his "Prodrome des Teleosauriens du 

 Calvados " was probably his most important contribution to science, 

 as it has formed the basis of all subsequent work on that family, 

 and the genera Metriorhyuclius, Teleidosaurus, Pelagosaurus, and 

 Steneosaurus were either founded or first really defined in it. During 

 the next ten years Eudes-Deslongchamps was at work on various 

 subjects, and a list of papers on the recent and fossil mollusca of 

 Normandy, the Brachiopods, the Cetacea, the Teleosaurians, with 

 some botanical work, shows the wide range of his interests. He 

 began also " Le Jura Normand," of which, however, only a few 

 numbers were issued. A visit to the Brighton Aquarium, when that 

 institution was at its best, inspired Eudes-Deslongchamps to agitate 

 for the establishment of the Zoological station and laboratory at 

 Luc-sur-Mer ; he was director of this for some years, and in con- 

 nection with it, did much good dredging work in the Channel, in 

 his yacht, the " Emma." 



In 1878 he resumed his connection with the Linnean Society of 

 Normandy, and was in the same year elected to the Presidency, a 

 post to which he was again called in 1886. 



M. Eugene Eudes-Deslongchamps was perhaps one of the last 

 of the old school of all-round naturalists ; as was necessary for one 

 who had devoted his life to the study of the whole natural history 

 of so varied and extensive a country as Normandy, he was by turn 

 botanist, zoologist, geologist, and archaeologist ; he was always ready 

 to investigate whatever problem turned up next, and he seemed 

 equally pleased to tackle deformed Fuchsias or Jurassic Crocodiles, 

 Brachiopod histology or the correlation of the French Jurassics — 

 any subject in fact that was connected with his beloved Normandy, 

 Amongst the scientific workers of that province he can ill be spared, 

 and the death of a naturalist of such wide and varied experience 

 will c .use a gap in the Linnean Society of Normandy that it will 

 be difficult, if not impossible, to fill. 



