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Stewart was a master in the art of lecturing. His easy and lucid 
style, combined with a rare power of swift and effective drawing on 
the blackboard, would have made his addresses notable quite apart 
from the peculiar charm of his delivery.— Zhe Morning Post, Saturday, 
September 28th, 1907. 
EDMUND MOuJSISOVICS VON MOJSVAR, Sc.D. 
We regret to record the death at Mallnitz, on the 2nd October, of 
the eminent Austro-Hungarian geologist and paleontologist, Johann 
August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics, Edler von Mojsvar, Sc.D. Camb., 
Foreign Memb. Geol. Soc. Lond., author of numerous memoirs on the 
Cephalopoda of the Austrian Trias, to the description and illustration 
of which he devoted very many years of his life. He was a member 
of the k.k. Geologischen Reichsanstalt in Vienna; and usually resided 
at Strohgasse, 26, Vienna 3/3. We hope to give a fuller notice of 
Dr. E. Mojsisovics later on. 
REV. RICHARD BARON, F.L.S., F.G.S. 
Born 1847. Diep OcTosBer 12, 1907.. 
We regret to record the death (from heart-failure, following an 
attack of malarial fever) of the Rev. Richard Baron, who for thirty- 
five years was engaged in missionary work at Antananarivo, 
Madagascar, in connection with the London Missionary Society. 
Mr. Baron was a frequent contributor to the Antananarivo 
Annual, and took an earnest interest in the botany, geology, and 
paleontology of Madagascar. In March, 1889, he communicated to 
the Geological Society of London, through the Director-General of 
the Geological Survey, some interesting notes on the geology of 
Madagascar, with an appendix on some fossils collected by him, by 
Mr. R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural 
History). At the same meeting, March 6th, 1889, Dr. F. H. Hatch, 
F.G.8., contributed some notes on the petrographical characters of 
some rocks collected by Mr. Baron (Gro. Mae., 1889, pp. 234-235, 
and Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1889, vol. xiv, pp. 305-331, pl. xiii, 
and map). <A second extensive collection of Invertebrate fossils was 
made by Mr. Baron in 1891, during a journey of 1,200 miles, in 
which he visited the east coast, the northern end of Madagascar, and 
the north-west coast and adjacent islands. His description of the 
geology and the rocks examined form the subject of an excellent 
paper read before the Geological Society, November 21st, 1894 
(Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. li, 1895, pp. 57-71, pl. 1), to which 
Mr. R. B. Newton contributed a description of the fossils obtained by 
Mr. Baron (op. cit., pp. 72-92, pls. 11 and 111). 
From Mr. Baron’s observations and collections we learn that 
sedimentary rocks occur mainly on the western and southern sides of 
the island. From the fossils brought home it appears that the 
following formations are represented, namely: Kocene, Upper 
Cretaceous, Neocomian, Oxfordian, Lower Oolitic, and Liassic rocks. 
