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VLADIMIR PROCHOROVITCH AMALITSKY. 

 BOKN 1860. Died December 28, 1917. 



"We regret to learn that Professor Amalitsky, of Warsaw, died 

 suddenly from heart failure last December at Kislovodsk, jS^orth 

 Caucasus. He was born in Volbynia in 1860, and received his 

 'scientific education at the University of Petrograd, -where he was 

 especially attracted to geology by Professor Inostransev. He soon 

 became an accomplished student, and early in his career was 

 appointed Professor of Geology in the University of Warsaw. After- 

 wards he assumed the direction of the Polytechnic Institute in 

 Warsaw, and was occupied with his duties there at the outbreak of 

 war in 1914. 



Professor Amalitsky devoted himself with great success to the 

 study of the Permian formations of llussia, and made a special effort 

 to discover remains of terrestrial and freshwater faunas and floras in 

 these rocks. He first met with unusually well-preserved freshwater 

 bivalved shells of the family Anthracosiidai, which he described in 

 the Palceontographica, vol. xxxix (1892), and in the first part of 

 a Eussia^n work intended to treat all aspects of Permian geology, 

 published in Warsaw, also in 1892. Three years later he visited the 

 British Museum, with his equally accomplished wife, who always 

 shared his labours, and there he compared his Russian fossils with 

 the corresponding shells from the Karoo formation of South Africa. 

 The results of his researches were contributed to the Geological 

 Society of London in a paper entitled "A Comparison of the 

 Permian Freshwater Lamellibranchiata from Russia with those from 

 the Karoo System of South Africa" (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 vol. li, pp. 337-51, pis. xii, xiii, 1895). 



While in London, Professor and Mrs. Amalitsky also studied the 

 Karoo reptiles and other Permian and Triassic fossils. They then 

 spent four seasons in exploring promising localities in the Permian 

 region of the northern Dwina, and discovered not only more fresh- 

 water shells but also the characteristic Glossnpteris Flora and great 

 deposits of concretions containing the skeletons of Reptiles and 

 Labyrinthodonts. In 1899 and 1900, with the aid of funds from 

 the Russian Ministry of Public Instruction, they made extensive 

 diggings in the beds of bone-bearing concretions and obtained a very 

 large collection which was sent to the University of Warsaw. 

 Skeletons of Pariasaurians proved to be especially abundant, and 

 there were numerous remains of Dicynodonts, Theriodonts, and 

 Deuterosaurians, besides well-preserved Labyrinthodonts. In 

 December, 1899, Professor Amalitsky made a general report on his 

 first year's official work to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 

 Petrograd, and published this as a separate pamphlet at Warsaw in 



