430 Obituanj. 



in. He was buried at Hadzor, Worcestershire. Douglas Galton was 

 amongst the oldest Fellows of the Geological Society, having been 

 elected in 1848, and served on the Council from 1870 to 1874 



FRANZ RITTER VON HAUER. 



EoRN, Vienna, Jan. 30, 1822. Died March 20, 1899. 



EiTTEK VON Hauer has been called the Nestor of Austrian 

 geologists, having been for many years Director of the Geological 

 Survey and Intendant of the Imperial Natural History Museum. 

 He was born in Vienna in 1822, and educated there until he went to 

 the Bei'g-Akademie at Schemnitz from 1839 to 1843. He afterwards 

 became a mining official in Styria, and in 1846 was made Assistant 

 to Haidinger at the Imperial Mineralogical Museum in his native 

 city, when he began original palceontological work. He succeeded 

 Haidinger as chief of the Museum, and held that post from 1867 

 to 1885. On the death of F. von Hochstetter he was made Curator 

 of the Imperial Natural History Museum, in which post he did 

 important work, retiring at last on account of old age and ill-health. 

 He was the first to classify the Alpine sedimentary rocks on 

 a strictly stratigraphical basis, and published a work on the 

 Cephalopoda of the Triassic and Jurassic beds of the eastern 

 Alpine regions. His general map of the Austrian Empire (in 

 twelve sheets, published 1867-71, reaching a fourth and extended 

 edition in 1884), and his account of the geology of that empire, 

 published in 1875, crown his life's work. Franz Eitter von Hauer 

 was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological Society of 

 London in 1863, a Foreign Member in 1871 ; and he was awarded 

 the Wollaston Medal in 1882. He died on March 20, 1899. Von 

 Hauer received many orders and. honours, held various offices, and 

 was revered as a teacher and leader in science. 



CHARLES JULES EDME BRONGNIART. 



Born 1859. Died April 18, 1899. 



M. Chakles Brongniart was the grandson of the illustrious 

 French Botanist, Adolphe T. Brongniart, who in 1841 received 

 the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London. He 

 was an Assistant at the Museum of Natural History, Paris, and was 

 one of the chief European authorities on Fossil Insects, on which he 

 wrote a number of papers from 1876 onward. His principal work 

 was published in 1893, in the form of two large quarto volumes 

 with atlases of plates. One of these is the third volume of 

 " Studies on the Coal-measures of Commentry," which is devoted to 

 the Entomological Fauna of the Carboniferous epoch. The other is 

 " Fossil Insects of Primary Times." Several of his papers appeared 

 as translations in the Geological Magazine. (See Geol. Mag., 

 1879, Dec. II, Vol. VI, pp. 97-102, PI. IV ; 1885, Dec. Ill, Vol. II, 

 pp. 481-491^ ^^-.^^^ ' ^^^> PP- 422-425, one page illustration ; 

 1895, pp. 233-236.) It is sad that so distinguished a career, from 

 which we had reason to expect so much more valuable work, should 



