144 OhiUiary — Professor Dr. Geinitz. 



Geinitz had to serve for four years in the shop of tlie Court chemist, 

 but this did not prevent him from spending his spare time in the 

 study of botany, chemistry, and motlern languages. In 1834 a way 

 opened for him to go to the University of Berlin, and in 1836 to 

 that of Jena, where he graduated in 1838. Under the influence of 

 Quenstedt, Geinitz directed his attention more particularly to the 

 study of mineralogy and palaeontology, and the subject of his 

 graduation thesis was the Muschelkalk in Thuringia. In the same 

 year, 1838, he went to Dresden and accepted the post of assistant- 

 tutor in the Technical High School, with the modest salary of 

 150 thalers (about £22) per annum. In 1850 he became Professor 

 at the same institution, and he occupied this position until 1894, 

 when, owing to increasing deafness, he was obliged to resign. 

 From 1863 to 1878 he was one of the editors of the Neues Jahrbucli ; 

 in 1857 he was appointed Director of the Eoyal Mineralogical 

 Museum at Dresden, which may be said to owe its present 

 flourishing condition mainly to his zeal and energy, and also the 

 founding of the Prehistoric Museum in 1874. 



Professor Geinitz was a very prolific writer on geological and 

 paleeontological subjects, and his published papers date from 1837 

 to nearly the latest years of his life. Though to a large extent they 

 refer to the rocks and fossils of his native country, they yet include 

 matters of general and permanent importance to geological science. 

 Amongst his principal memoirs are his descriptions of the fossils in 

 the Grauwacke formation of Saxony, which appeared in 1852 ; the 

 monograph of the animal remains of the Dyas formation, 1861-62 ; 

 and that on the " Elbthalgebirge," 1871-75, which contains the 

 results of his long-continued researches into the stratigraphy and 

 palaeontology of the Cretaceous rocks of Saxony and adjoining- 

 countries. He also wrote on the fossil flora of the Hainich- 

 Ebersdorf Coal Basin, and on that of the Coal formation in Saxony. 

 A commendable feature in Geinitz 's palasontological memoirs is the 

 admirable manner in which they are illustrated. 



Professor Geinitz was deservedly esteemed and honoured alike 

 by the geologists of his own country and by those of other 

 lands. He became a Foreign Member of the Geological Society of 

 London in 1857, and was the last of those elected to this position 

 directly without passing through the subordinate stage of Foreign 

 Correspondent. In 1878 he received the Society's Murchison Medal. 



Professor Geinitz died at Dresden on the 28th January in the 

 86th year of his age, and his remains were interred on the 31st, 

 in the presence of a numerous gathering of his old students and 

 colleagues.^ G. J. H. 



The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws has just been presented 

 by the Senate of the University of Glasgow to Mr. Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, F.L.S.,F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History), 

 Cromwell Eoad, London. 



^ Many of the facts in the above notice are taken from the Dresden Anzeiger. 

 a copy of which was kindly forwarded by Miss Agnes Crane of Brighton. 



