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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



SpiRiDroisr Betjsina, a member of this Society for some years, died 

 at Agram, Croatia, on May 21st, 1908, in his 63rd year. He 

 was Professor at Agram University, Director of the Zoological 

 Museum, Agram, and member of several South Slavonic Academies. 

 He was Knight of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Stanislas, 

 Class II, of the Servian Order of St. Sava, Class III, of the 

 Montenegrin Order of Danilo I, third grade, and of the Bulgarian 

 Order of Merit, Class III, etc. 



His scientific work was restricted almost exclusively to the study 

 of the Mollusca, especially fossil forms, occurring in the Neogene or 

 Mio-Pliocene deposits of South-Eastern Europe. He published 

 a considerable number of memoirs upon the subject, a few of which 

 are well illustrated, and, as Mr. K. Bullen Newton has observed, 

 " thus rendered most important services to this branch of Palaeontology, 

 the value of which is very generally recognized." 



He also wrote some important papers upon the living Molluscan 

 fauna of Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, and the Adriatic. 



Altogether Professor Brusina has written about twelve hundred 

 pages upon the Mollusca of South-East Europe in his various memoirs, 

 nearly fifty in number. He also published a voluminous catalogue of 

 the Adriatic fauna from manuscripts and unpublished figures by 

 Stephano Chiereghini. 



