432 Miscellaneous. 



done by bim, for instance in the Eeports of the British Association 

 Committee on Coast-erosion, and his knowledge was always at the 

 disposal of those interested in the subject. He died at the good old 

 age of 83. 



WILHELM HEINRICH WAAGEN. 



Born June 23, 1841. Died March 24. 1900. 



The celebrated palgeontologist Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen was- 

 born at Munich, 23rd June, 1841, and educated there and at Zurich. 

 In the latter place he specially studied natural history, for which 

 he had early shown great taste. 



In 1864 his first paper, "Der Jura in Franken, Schwaben, und der 

 Schweiz," made its appearance, and gained a prize. 



He established himself first at Munich, and for one year was- 

 natural history tutor to Prince Arnulph and Princess Therese of 

 Bavaria. In December, 1870, Waagen was appointed paleeontologist 

 to the Indian Geological Survey. The Indian climate, however, 

 did not suit him, and he was obliged to retire in August, 1875. The 

 previous year he had contracted a fortunate and happy marriage 

 with Sophie, Baroness von Gross-schedel. 



Shortly after quitting India, Waagen settled in Vienna and 

 became a Tutor at the University. The following year he went 

 to Prag to occupy the Chair of Mineralogy and Geology at the 

 German Technical High School. There, on the death of Barrande, 

 he assisted in editing the continuation of the " Systeme Silurien de 

 Boheme," and in association with Professor J. Jahn wrote the section 

 Crinoids for that work. 



On Neumayer's death, Waagen became in 1890 Professor of 

 Palseontology at the University of Vienna, a post which he held till 

 his death on 24th March, 1900. 



Waagen was by no means a prolific writer, less than a score of 

 papers in various journals being written by him. 



His principal works were on the Jurassic Cephalopoda of 

 Kutch and on the Salt Eange Fossils, both forming part of the 

 " Palffiontologica Indica," and the latter incomplete at the time of 

 his decease. 



Of the value of these works from a systematic point of view it 

 is perhaps as yet too early to speak; but of his enthusiasm and 

 industry, and of the fact that be greatly advanced our knowledge 

 of Indian palseontology, there can be no doubt. 



IMIISCIHinLXj^^I^riEOTJS. 



The University of London. — It gives us great pleasure to 

 announce that the Senate of the University of London has conferred 

 the degree of Doctor of Science upon Mr. C. W. Andrews, B.A., 

 F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History), and has also 

 awarded him the Sherbrooke Scholarship, founded by the late 

 Lord Sherbrooke, Trust. Brit. Mus. This is the first occasion on 

 which this scholarship has been presented. 



