528 Obituary — Professor Paul B. Richter. 



greatest abundance in shales of Middle Cambrian age forming the 

 summit of Mount Field and resting on the flanks of Mount Stephen 

 about 6,580 feet up; the 2,000 feet above the Trilobite shales have not 

 yet been examined. 



I gave an account of the fossils brought home by Mr. Whymper, 

 with seven text-figures and Plate XXII in the Geological Magazine, 

 1902, pp. 502 and 529, and the collections made by him were 

 subsequently presented to the Geological Department of the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.). He was a keen observer and collector, and had 

 Natural History been early instilled into his receptive mind he would 

 have been a great Naturalist as well as a great Mountaineer. 



[Taken in part from the Morning Post, September 18, 1911, the 

 remainder by H. "W.J 



PROFESSOR PAUL BOGUSLAV RICHTER. 

 Born 1854. Died October 9, 1911. 



This eminent geologist of the Imperial Gymnasium at Quedlinburg, 

 Germany, passed away on October 9, 1911, in his 57th year, deeply 

 regretted. 



Professor A. G. Nathorst, of Stockholm, writes us — " Palaeo- 

 botanists had anticipated that Professor Bichter might have lived 

 many years to publish further important contributions to our know- 

 ledge of the Keuper Flora of Thale and the Cretaceous Flora of 

 Quedlinburg, both of which he had studied for many years, and of 

 which he had made such extensive and excellent collections. 



" In addition to his minor contributions to Paleobotany he 

 published — 



1. In 1905, ' Beitriige zur Flora der oberen Kreide, Quedlinburgs.' 

 Teil i : • Die Gattung Credneria und einige seltnere Pflanzenreste.' 

 With six folio plates. 



2. In 1906, 'Beitrage zur Flora der unteren Kreide, Quedlinburgs.' 

 Teil i: 'Die Gattung Hausmannia, Dunker, und einige seltnere 

 Pflanzenreste.' With seven folio plates. 



3. In 1909, ' Beitrage zur Flora der unteren Kreide, Quedlinburgs.' 

 Teil ii : ' Die Gattung Nathorstiana.'' 



4. 'P. Pichter und Cylindrites spongioides des Goeppert.' With 

 six folio plates." 



JOHN GRIFFITHS. 

 The death is announced (in Nature) of Mr. John .Griffiths, the 

 well-known fossil-collector of Folkestone. He rendered important 

 service to Mr. F. G. Hilton Price, Mr. C. E. De Pance, and 

 Mr. J. Starkie Gardner in their researches on the Gault and associated 

 formations, and he discovered a large proportion of the most important 

 Gault fossils now in the British Museum and the Museum of Practical 

 Geology. So long ago as 1887 it was announced in the Geological 

 Magazine (p. 140) that Griffiths had been permanently disabled by 

 rheumatism. 



