142 Obituary — Lieut.-Col. C. Cooper-King. 



theology, with the intention of entering the Church ; but he was at 

 the same time also deeply interested in natural science, and he 

 attended the lectures of Quenstedt, who filled him with enthusiasm 

 for geology and paleeontology. He worked hard in collecting fossils 

 and making geological observations in Swabia, and when he had the 

 opportunity of spending a year in Paris, in 1847, he attended the 

 lectures of D'Orbigny and Elie de Beaumont at the School of Mines. 

 On returning to his native country, Fraas followed his theological 

 profession, and from 1850 to 1854 he was pastor of Laufen a. d. 

 Eyach. In 1854 he became Conservator of the Department of 

 Mineralogy and Palaeontology in the Eoyal Wurtemberg Museum 

 at Stuttgart, an office which he bekl until a few years ago, when, on 

 the retirement of Dr. von Krauss, he succeeded to the Directorship, 

 and left his son. Dr. Eberhard Fraas, in charge of the minerals and 

 fossils. In the course of his official labours, Dr. Oscar von Fraas 

 not only made the Stuttgart collection one of the jfinest in Europe, 

 and enriched it with Swabian fossil batrachians, reptiles, and 

 mammals, many of which are absolutely unique; he also published 

 popular writings to interest the people in his work, and carried 

 on a long series of researches, of which the results appear in more 

 than sixty papers and memoirs. Most of these relate to the geology, 

 fossils, and prehistoric archseology of Wiirtemberg ; but some also, 

 recount his experiences in the East, which he visited in 1864-5, 

 and again in 1875. He paid special attention to the geology of the 

 Lebanon ; and the scientific results of his journeys through Syria 

 are collected in a small volume entitled " Aus dem Orient," which 

 was published in two parts (1867 and 1878). Among his larger 

 memoirs, those on the Miocene Mammalian Fauna of Steinheim 

 (1870), and on the armoured reptile Aetosanrns from the Swabian 

 Trias (1877), ai'e especially important contributions to knowledge. 

 Dr. Oscar von Fraas was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the 

 Geological Society of London a few days before his death. 



LIEUT.-COLONEL CHARLES COOPER-KING, F.G.S. 



Born February 4, 1843. Died January 16, 1898, 



Charles Cooper-King, Lieut.-Colonel Eoyal Marine Artillery 

 (retired), died at his residence, Kingsclear, Camberley, Surrey, 

 on the 16th of January, 1898, aged nearly 55 years. The only 

 son of Major U. H. King, R.M., Light Infantry, he was born at 

 Plymouth. He was at school there until the end of 1859, passed 

 into the Eoyal Marines as a Marine Cadet in January, 1860, second 

 on the list, and joined H.M.S. " Excellent." He passed as a Second 

 Lieutenant E.M. at the Eoyal Naval College, Portsmouth, first 

 on the list (1862) ; and, recommended for the E.M. Artillery, 

 he was gazetted at Fort Cumberland. In 1864, he was appointed 

 to command the detachment of Marines on H.M.S. " Scylla " in the 

 China seas and Japan. He was promoted to First Lieutenant in 

 1865 ; and rejoined headquarters (Eastney) in 1867. He passed 

 (fourth) into the Statf College, July, 1868; and in August he 



