THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
NEWOSERIESS DECADE), Ik, VOL x. 
No. XII.—DECEMBER, 1883. 
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I.—Skrrcu or THE Lire oF JoAcHiIm BARRANDE, OF PRAGUE. 
Wirn A Portrair.! (PLATE XIV.) 
HE usually quiet city of Prague in Bohemia, with its population 
fof 235,000 inhabitants, considerably more than half of whom are 
Czechs, has been deeply moved by the recent death of an old French 
exile, who for more than half a century had made his home there, 
and, having taken up the geology of the country around Prague for 
lis study, had endeared himself to the people by learning their 
language and interesting them in his pursuits. After publishing at 
great cost his geological works, and amassing a vast collection of 
fossils, he has at his death bequeathed his Library and Collections 
(valued at £20,000) to the Prague Museum, together with funds for 
the completion of his scientific labours. ‘To-day,’ writes Dr. 
Fritsch,? “I have opened a ‘ Barrande Fund’ with 1,000 florins, 
which I hope will soon reach to fl. 20,000; its object being to 
promote the study of the Silurian formations of Bohemia. We also 
wish to place a large slab inscribed with the name of ‘ BARRANDE’ 
on the Silurian rocks in Kuchelbad, near the celebrated locality 
Wiskocilka, where he picked up his first fossil Orthoceras 
Bohemicum.” 
Joachim Barrande was born at Saugues, in the Department of the 
Upper Loire, France, August 11th, 1799, and was educated in the 
Polytechnic School at Paris. He was selected by Charles X. as 
tutor to his son, the young Duc de Bordeaux. When the King 
abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the Royal exiles to England 
and Scotland, and afterwards to Prague, where for a time they 
resided. The King dying at Goritz in 1836, the constant attendance 
of Barrande was no longer greatly needed by the Count de Chambord, 
who removed to Frohsdorf, and became, as he advanced in years, more 
and more engrossed by the clerical party; but he always retained 
Barrande’s services and regarded him as a dear and personal friend. 
About 1833 Barrande, finding himself more at leisure, took much 
1 We are greatly indebted to Dr. Anton Fritsch for kindly sending us the portrait- 
engraving of M. Barrande which accompanies this notice, and also for various 
German newspaper and other notices, from one of which, by Prof. J. Krejéi, this 
Memoir has been chiefly compiled. —Epir. Grou. Mac. 
2 Director of the Natural History Museum in Prague. 
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