334 Obiluary — Professor A. A. de Lapparent. 



a considerable series of flints and chalk fragments recently dredged 

 from about 500 fathoms off the Kerry coast by the Fishery Branch of 

 the Department of Agriculture for Ireland. At two points, moreover, 

 J/;7/o//««-limestone lias been found. This is at once distinguished 

 from the specimens of Cretaceous Chalk by the naked eye, and it 

 affords an unexpected extension of the material described by 

 Mr. R. H.Worth from a dredging off the south of Cornwall. The Irish 

 specimens will be dealt with in a forthcoming memoir of the Geological 

 Survey of Ireland, in which Mr. T. Crook and myself have brought 

 together what we know of the rocks forming the sea-bottom off the 

 coast from Donegal to Kerry. The small part played in this area hy 

 ice-borne material agrees with the discoveries of Herr B^ggild off the 

 coast of Greenland. We are now fortunate in having Mr. Worth's 

 work for consultation and guidance, since it not only includes his 

 previously published observations of 1899, but affords a valuable review 

 of all rocks that have been recorded from the English Channel area. 



Gkknville a. J. Cole. 

 Geological Svrvey of Ireland, 



14, Hume Street, Dublin. 

 June Uth, 1908. 



O B I T"Cr^^I?,"X". 



ALBERT AUGUSTE DE LAPPARENT. 

 Born December 30, 1839. Died May 5, 1908. 



It is with profound regret that we record the decease of M. de 

 Lapparent, one of the most eminent geologists of France, who since 

 1875 has been Professor of Geology and Mining in the Catholic 

 Institute at Paris. To geologists in this country he has been, perhaps, 

 most widely known for his excellent " Traite de Geologie," of which 

 the first edition was published in eight parts (1881-83), and the fifth 

 edition in three volumes (1906). It is a work of great labour and 

 research, and gives the best summary we have had of European geology, 

 especially in the portions relating to stratigraphical palaeontology. 



Of other works, his " Cours de Mineralogic," published in 1884, 

 reached its fourth edition during the present year ; and mention 

 should also be made of " Le Globe Terrestre," published in 1899. 

 Interested largely in earth movements and earth sculpture, 

 de Lapparent contributed original articles on these and other subjects 

 to the Bulletin of the Geological Society of France, and he assisted in 

 the preparation of the geological maps of La Mauche and other areas. 



A suave and fluent speaker, he was in much request at scientific 

 gatherings, and his visits to this country at the time of the Inter- 

 national Geological Congress in 1888 and during the recent centenary 

 celebrations will be long remembered by those who had the privilege 

 of listening to his eloquent speeches. He was elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Geological Society of London in 1887. 



