192 Obituary — Professor 0. C. Marsh. 



Professors Dames and Kayser, on the plan of the older " Paleeonto- 

 graphica," in 1883. The memoir on Archcsopteryx, with its brief 

 supplement in 1897 (Sitzb. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss.), will remain 

 one of the classics of Palaeontology. After a visit to Greece, 

 Professor Dames described some remains of Hyoenarctos, Cervus, 

 and a rodent from Pikermi (1883) ; while in 1888 he returned 

 temporarily to the study of Invertebrata, pnblishiug a paper on 

 Crustacea from the Cretaceous of Mount Lebanon. The most 

 important memoirs of his later years were those on the Granoid 

 Fishes of the Muschelkalk (1889), on Chelonia from the North 

 German Tertiaries (1894), on Zeuglodont remains from Egypt 

 (1894:), and on Plesiosaurus from the Lias of Southern Germany 

 (1895). Of these, the first three were published in the " Palasonto- 

 logische Abhandlnngen," while the fourth was a memoir of the 

 Prussian Academy. At the time of his death the Professor had 

 in preparation a description of the Neocomian fishes of Hildesheim, 

 Hanover, and a paper on Stereosterniim from Brazil. From 1885 

 onwards he had been joint-editor of the " Neues Jahrbuch fiir 

 Mineralogie.'' 



Professor Dames travelled extensively in Europe and was well 

 known in this country, where he was honoured by election as 

 Foreign Correspondent to the Geological Society of London in 

 1891, and as Foreign Member of the same Society in 1895. He 

 married a Russian lady. Baroness Mathilde von Toll, of Kuckers, 

 in Esthonia. His last journey was one in the vain search of health, 

 through Norway, during the summer vacation of 1898. 



We have just received the mournful intelligence of the 

 death, from pneumonia, of our valued friend of 33 years. 

 Professor 0. C. Marsh, of Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn., on the 18th March, in his 68th year. Few men of 

 this century have done more to advance vertebrate palaeontology 

 than Professor Marsh, or have left behind larger contributions 

 to the science. — H. W. 



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The Museum of Practical Geology, Jermtn Street. — It has 

 been decided by the Government not to remove the Museum of 

 Practical Geology from Jermyn Street to South Kensington. 

 Opinions have differed with regard to the desirability of this 

 course. On purely scientific grounds it would have been well to 

 have the Geological Survey collection of fossils, which are strati- 

 graphically arranged, alongside of the British Museum fossils, which 

 are zoologically arranged. On the other hand, the practical uses of 

 the Geological Survey and Museum would have been seriously 

 imperilled by a transfer to South Kensington. We hope, now that 

 the matter is settled, that proper accommodation will speedily be 

 afforded for the Geological Survey Offices. 



