Obituary. 95 



Mining, whicli are printed in the Transactions, He died, after a 

 short illness, on the 19th December, 1865/ 



Professor Forchhammbr. — We have to announce the death of 

 Professor Forchhammer, the eminent Geologist, and Secretary of the 

 Copenhagen Academy of Science, to which office he succeeded in 

 1851, on the death of Oersted. He was born at Husum, in Schles- 

 wig, in 1794, and in 1818 he became Orsted's secretary, and accom- 

 panied him on a mineralogical expedition to the island of Bornholm. 

 He subsequently made several journeys in Great Britain, France, and 

 Denmark, at the expense of the Danish Government. In 1825 he 

 was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen, 

 and a Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London. Ten 

 years later he was chosen Professor of Mineralogy at the University 

 of Copenhagen. He was the author of several works on Geology 

 and Chemistry, and he also contributed many papers on these 

 subjects to the Academy. It is to be regretted that these memoirs, 

 being published in Danish (a language not generally understood), 

 are to some extent inaccessible to scientific men. Professor 

 Forchhammer studied with great care the physical effects of ice in 

 producing geologic changes, and also the composition of sea water 

 at different parts of the earth's surface. — Header, Bee. 30, 1865, 



Dr. K, a, Oppel.— Science has to deplore the death, at Munich, on 

 December 22, 1865, of this young and accomplished geologist, who 

 has been removed from us at a period when his energies were in full 

 activity for the advancement of science, to which he was firmly 

 devoted, and for the interests of the University of Munich, to which 

 he was attached as Professor. Great as must be the loss to his 

 relatives and colleagues at Munich, it will be almost equally felt 

 by those friends to whom he was known in this country, and by 

 whom he was pei'sonally esteemed. 



Dr. Oppel's labours were devoted chiefly to the investigation of 

 the Jurassic rocks, and his researches were especially interesting 

 and important to English geologists, to the advancement of whose 

 knowledge his monographs have contributed, enabling them to co- 

 ordinate the zones of Jurassic life with those tabulated in his work 

 on the Jura formation of England, France, and south-western 

 Germany (published in 1856). This work appeared subsequently, 

 and was perhaps partly in consequence of an extended tour Dr. 

 Oppel made, more than ten years since, in the Oolitic districts of this 

 country, over some portions of which he was accompanied by the 

 well-known French engineer and geologist, M. Triger, and Professor 

 Morris. He visited Dorset, Somerset, Bedford, Gloucester, Lincoln, 

 and Yorkshire, carefully examining all the sections exposed, collect- 

 ing a large series of fossils, and studying the private cabinets of 

 some of our best authorities on the Oolites, as those of Mr. Leckenby, 

 and Drs. Lycett and Wright, by whom he was kindly received. The 

 rich stores accumulated on this and other excursions, and the trouble 



I See also Biography, in Colliery Guardian, toI. x. p. 333; and Obituary idem 

 pp. 489 and 493. 1865. 



