288 Obituary—Professor Seebach. 
Romer at Breslau, for whom he possessed a grateful admiration to 
the last. These studies he continued in Géttingen and Berlin under 
Prof. Beyrich. In 1862 he wrote a memoir “On the Molluscan 
Fauna of the Weimar Trias.” 
After this course of study came scientific travels. First, in com- 
pany with Professor Rémer, he visited the Carpathians, and in 1861 
Russia, in 1862 England, in 1863 Sweden. 
At the conclusion of his University career in 1863, he was elected 
Professor Extraordinary of Geology and Paleontology in the Uni- 
versity of Gottingen. 
After the publication of his ‘“‘ Hannoverian Jura” in 1864, he 
obtained the title of Professor, and started upon a scientific expedi- 
tion to Central America, which occupied him a part of 1864-65. 
He was incessantly engaged upon the account of this expedition, 
but it so hindered his professorial labours, that only one preliminary 
account of the results has appeared. His investigations into the 
phenomena of volcanos were worthy the journey to Central America, 
and are well expressed in a letter on “'The typical difference in the 
form and construction of volcanos and their causes.” In 1866 he 
visited the Island of Santorin, and published an account of it in 
1867, treating of its remarkable volcanic phenomena. A little later 
he started various scientific questions in a clear and intelligent form : 
“The waves of the sea and their geological action” (1872) 
“Central America and the interoceanic canal” (1873). In June, 
1867, he married Berta Sauppe, the second daughter of his former 
master, the Professor of Philology and Classics in Gottingen. In 
1870 Seebach was appointed permanent Professor. 
From 1867 he worked at the Geognostic Charts of Prussia and 
Thiringia, and spent his summer vacation in the field. In 1872 the 
maps for Worbis and Niederorschel were finished ; other completed 
works await publication. The completion of a new Natural History 
Museum, in which the geological and paleontological collections 
formed by far the largest share, was his latest task, and was a sub- 
ject very near his heart. In the carrying out and executing of the 
plans he took amost active part. Late in 1877 the building was 
finished. 
At that time the meeting of the German Geological Society was 
held in Vienna, when, contrary to Seebach’s desire, the meeting for 
the ensuing year, 1878, was fixed to take place in Gottingen. This 
caused him to work in the draughty unfinished rooms, moving and 
arranging the collections, a task which he accomplished, but only at 
the cost of his already heavily overtasked strength. 
A winter (1878-79) passed in Portugal, was to restore his health 
and relieve his bronchitis. The interest excited by a’visit to this, as 
yet, little known land, restored for a time his strength, and renewed 
his scientific activity. In the spring of 1879 he returned to Gét- 
tingen, but only to retire to a couch, from which he was never again 
to rise. 
On January 21st, 1880, he died, leaving a warm and beets 
remembrance of his brave and true-hearted nature, which all who 
knew him will cherish. 
