240 Obituary — Charles jEmilius Oldham, B.A. 



Belemnite, but the species, I presume, cannot be determined. This 

 is the only specimen I have ever discovered or heard of in this 

 division of the Lower Lias, and the genus appears to be very rare. 



P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S. 



ViCAEAGE, EOWINGTON, WARWICK. 



April 15, 1869. 



CHARLES ^MILIUS OLDHAM, B.A. 

 Indian geology has sustained a great loss by the death of 

 one of its most ardent labourers, Mr. Charles ^milius Oldham, 

 youngest son of the late Thomas Oldham, Esq., of Dublin, 

 and brother of Dr. T. Oldham, Superintendent of the G-eological 

 Survey of India, which lately took place at Wellington Koad, Dublin. 

 The deceased entered Dublin University in 1846, where, having 

 passed a very distinguished undergraduate course, and obtaining a 

 classical sizarship and scholarship, he took the degree of B.A. as 

 senior moderator and gold medallist in Ethics and Logic in 1852. 

 He afterwards entered the School of Mines, Jermyn Street, London ; 

 and on the completion of his studies there, was appointed in 1856 on 

 the staff of the Geological Survey of India. For several years past 

 he acted as Deputy Superintendent of the Survey of the Madras Pre- 

 sidency ; and during the last two years held the lectureship of Geo- 

 logy to the Engineering College of Madras. He married in 1863, 

 Evelyn, second daughter of Professor W. King, of the Queen's Uni- 

 versities in Ireland. In the middle of last December, he returned 

 home on leave of absence, in the enjoyment, to all appearance, of 

 perfect health. Two months subsequent to his arrival, symptoms of 

 approaching illness manifested themselves ; and shortly after he be- 

 came affected with blood-poison, consequent on the breaking off and 

 decomposition of a Guinea-worm that had penetrated one of his legs 

 while on duty. Passing through various phases, his illness, of a 

 most painful character, terminated fatally on the 30th of March, in 

 severe congestion and inflammation of the lungs. He died in the 

 38th year of his age. His name will ever be associated with the 

 early progress of the Geological Survey of Southern India, as it is 

 honourably connected, like those of his colleagues, with the discovery 

 in the Madras Presidency of the quartzite implements that have at- 

 tracted so much attention of late. Gifted with a most amiable dis- 

 position and talents of a high order, being in the prime of life, and 

 having just entered on the necessary leisure by which, for the first 

 time, he became enabled to communicate his knowledge of Indian 

 geology to the scientific public, and leaving a widow, with one son, 

 to mourn her irreparable loss, under such circumstances, the sudden 

 and unexpected death of Mr. Oldham has spread intense grief 

 among a wide circle of friends. 



