190 Ohituari/ — Professor E. von Mojsisovics. 



1879 did he for a time leave his work in the Alps in order to carry 

 out some geological investigations in Bosnia and Croatia. 



He retired from the Geological Survey in 1900, and went to reside 

 near Mallnitz, in Carinthia, a village picturesquely situated at a height 

 of about 3,800 feet on the Mallnitzer Tauern, one of the southern 

 extensions of the Hohe Tauern. But his retirement amidst the 

 mountains which he loved so well was not for long, for on the 

 morning of the 2ud of October he succumbed to a most painful 

 affection of the tongue and throat from which he had suffered for 

 some time past. 



Notwithstanding the amount of the field-work which Dr. E. v. 

 Mojsisovics had accomplished, he was also a most prolific writer, 

 heing the author of some one hundred and fifty works, some, especially 

 his paloeontological memoirs, being of considerable size. His first 

 important work seems to have been one " Uber die alten Gletscher 

 der 8iidalpen," that appeared in 1863 in the publications of the 

 Austrian Alpine Club, in which he proposed to substitute for the 

 threefold division of Alps a twofold subdivision into the Western 

 and Eastern Alps as being the more natural one, a view which is now 

 generall}^ adopted. Perhaps one of his most important geological 

 woi'ks was that entitled " Die Dolomitriffe von Biidtirol und 

 Yenetien," which appeared during the year 1878 ; his researches here 

 showed that these enormous masses of dolomite, the remains of 

 Triassic coral reefs, included the faunas of several distinct Triassic 

 horizons. 



Another large work, a geological monograph of the Salzkammergut, 

 unfortunately remains unfinished. Only a short stretch of the geo- 

 logical relationships of this district was contributed by E. v. Mojsisovics 

 to Dr. Diener's work entitled " Ban und Bild der Ostalpen," which 

 appeared in 1903. Of the monograph itself, which was to have 

 appeared under the title "Das Gehirge um Hallstatt," only the 

 pala^ontological part, bearing the title of " Die Cephalopoden der 

 Hallstfitter Kalke," has been published. This, however, is an 

 enormous work; it forms Band vi of the " Abhandlungen der k.k. 

 geologischen Reichsanstalt." The first part, with the sub-title " Die 

 Mollusk^n-Fauneu der Zlambach- und HallstJitter Schichten," but 

 dealing only with the Cephalopoda, was issued in three sections, of 

 which the first (pp. 82 ; 32 plates) appeared in 1873, the second 

 (pp. 92; 38 plates) in 1875, and the third, forming a supplement 

 (pp. 182; 23 plates), so late as 1902, the whole making a volume of 

 some 356 pages and 93 plates. The second part of "Die Cephalopoden 

 der Hallstiitter Kalke" appeared in 1893 ; it is in two volumes con- 

 sisting of 835 pages of text and 130 plates, and contains descriptions 

 of more than 700 species. In the meantime, however, E. v. Mojsisovics 

 issued several important works. Thus, in 1882 he published his work 

 on "Die Cephalopoden der Mediterrauen Triasprovinz " (Abhand- 

 lungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt, Bd. x), a large volume 

 comprising 322 pages of text and 94 lithographic plates. But 

 E. V. Mojsisovics did not confine his attention to the Triassic fauna 

 of the Alps; in 1886 his memoir on the " Arktische Triasfaunen" 

 (pp. 157 ; 20 plates) was issued by the Imperial Academy of Sciences 



