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my colleagues from South. Wales identify them ; but Mr. Lamplugh 

 at once recognized them as exactly resembling the Upper Old Eed 

 Sandstone of the South of Ireland. This was an unexpected find ; 

 but as we know that during the Grlacial Epoch glaciers in the South. 

 of Ireland descended to the sea-level and thrust long tongues into the 

 Atlantic, there is nothing surprising that the icebergs calving off 

 should drift over to Scilly and there be stranded. Clement Reid. 

 Hampsteau. 



Februarij 26th, 1908. 



OBIT"Cr.A.E.-3r_ 



EDMUND V. MOJSISOVICS, Sc.D. 



Born October 18, 1839. Died October 2, 1907. 



JoHANN August Geoeg Edmund Mojsisovics Edler von MojsvIk 

 was born on October 18th, 1839, at Vienna. Matriculating at the 

 University of Yienna in 1858, he there studied jurisprudence, and in 

 1864 graduated as a Doctor of Laws. While at the University he 

 pursued also geological and geographical studies. An enthusiastic 

 mountaineer, he was, when only 23 years of age, one of the 

 founders of the Austrian Alpine Club, which was formed in 1862. 

 From 1862 to 1865 E. v. Mojsisovics was Secretary of the Club, and in 

 that capacity edited the first volume of their Mitteilunffen, that 

 appeared in 1863, and the first volume of their Jahrbuch, which was 

 issued some two years later. Up to this time E. v. Mojsisovics was 

 an ardent mountaineer, and contributed to the publications of the 

 newly-formed club a number of articles on his mountaineering 

 expeditions. 



In 1865 E. V. Mojsisovics joined the Austrian Geological Survey as 

 a volunteer, and during the summer months of that year was occupied 

 in an investigation of the Ortler Alps. But his great physical 

 exertions during these months brought on an affection of the muscles 

 of the legs that not only confined him to his bed during the following 

 winter, but prevented him from again attempting any particularly 

 arduous climbing. Nevertheless, his health was so far restored during 

 the summer of 1866 that in the months of August and Sej)tember he 

 was able, together with Professor Eduard Suess, to carry out 

 geological investigations in the Salzkammergut. In 1867 Mojsisovics 

 became officially attached to the Survey, being promoted in 1873-to 

 the rank of Chief Geologist, and in 1893 to the position of Vice- 

 Director, a position which he occupied until the year 1900. 



In 1871 he married Charlotte Voelcker, the daughter of Georg 

 Voelcker, a London banker. 



During his thirty-five years' connection with the Austrian 

 Geological Survey his work was almost exclusively confined to the 

 Alps, at first in the Vorarlberg and the North Tyrol, later in the 

 South Tyrol and the neighbouring parts of Venetia, but more 

 especially in the Salzkammergut and the surrounding districts of 

 Upper Austria, Salzburg, and Upper Steiermark. Only in the year 



