96 Obituary, 



he took to identify species, enabled tim, upon his return, to compare 

 them with the continental published and unpublished forms, and 

 thus increased the vakie of the work above noticed, and iinfolded his 

 notions of the co-relations of the English strata, — a subject which 

 had received the attention of Dr, Oscar Fraas in a previous essay.' 



The later labours of Dr. Oppel were equally important, bearing 

 as they do on Jurassic Paleeontology, The Palgeontologische 

 Mittheilungen is a work intended to comprise descriptions and 

 figures of the new or little known fossils contained in the fine 

 collection of the Eoyal Museum at Munich. The parts published 

 consist of the descriptive text and eighty-eight plates, thirty-nine 

 of which are illustrative of twenty-four genera, and seventy species^ 

 of Crustacea from the Lias, Dogger, Oxfordian, and Kimmeridge 

 strata. The remaining plates are chiefly of Ammonites and some other 

 forms, amongst which may be noticed an interesting Cirriped, the 

 PoUicipes Redenbacheri, from Solenhofen, a form somewhat resembling 

 Mitella. The following are the new genera established by Dr. Oppel 

 in this work : — Stenocheirus, Pseudastaeus, Etalloma, Pseudoglyphea, 

 Acantliocliirus, and Udorella. Many of these are from the rich deposit 

 of Solenhofen, the fossils of which locality in the Munich Museum 

 are probably unrivalled, although the British Museum now contains 

 the Haberlein collection, which includes many beautiful specimens, 

 and among the rest, that remarkable form, the Archisopteryx. 



An attack of typhus fever terminated Dr. Oppel's useful labours 

 at the early age of 34 years. He leaves a widow and infant son to 

 deplore his loss. 



During Dr. Oppel's geological researches, he had amassed a veiy 

 extensive and complete collection of Ammonites, consisting of several 

 thousand specimens, which, it is hoped, will be purchased by some 

 European or American Museum for the benefit of his family. 



The following is a list of Dr. Oppel's published works : — 

 Ueber einege Cephalopoden der Jura formation. Wtirttemberg, 1856. 

 Die Jura formation Englands, Erankreichs und des Siid-westlichen. 



Deutschland, 1856. 

 Weitere Nachweise der Kossener Schichten in Schwaben und in 



Luxemburg. 

 Acanthoteutliis antiquus zu Gammelshausen bei Boll. 1856. 

 Pterodactylus in Lias Wiirtembergs. 1858. 

 Classification de la Formation Jurassique d'apres les Caracteres 



Paleontologiques. 1859. 

 Die neuerenUntersuchungen iiber die Zone der Avicula contorta. 1859. 

 Ueber die Brachiopoden des untern Lias. 1861. 

 Uber die weissen und rothen Kalke von Vils in Tyrol. 1861. 

 Palgeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koenigl, 



Bayer. Staates. Parts I.-III. Stuttgart 1862. Parts lY. and 



v., 1865. 

 Die Tithonische etage. 1865. 



1 Translated in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1851, vol. vii. 

 part ii. p. 42. 



