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over the whole Silurian district of Bohemia, and having thus made 
a preliminary survey of the region which he had resolved to explore 
paleontologically, and having determined the relative position and 
outcrop of the various beds, he engaged 10 or 12 intelligent work- 
men, who were taught how to search for fossils, and provided with 
all the necessary tools, including magnifying glasses. Under 
Barrande’s superintendence these men then proceeded to open and 
work numerous quarries wherever there seemed a promise of 
obtaining fossils, and solely for that object. “This labour” (writes 
Sir Charles Lyell, in 1851) “had continued uninterruptedly for ten 
years, with the result of the discovery of 1100 species of fossils 
in rocks in which the combined labours of Sternberg, Boeck, and 
Zenker had only resulted hitherto in the production of about 20 
forms.” 
Barrande frequently visited Paris in these years, and was in constant 
correspondence with Murchison, Sedgwick, Phillips, Hall, Forbes, 
Ramsay, Portlock, Davidson, M:Coy, Lyell, de Verneuil, Keyserling, 
Beyrich, and many other eminent Geologists and Naturalists. 
Murchison paid him repeated visits in Prague, in 1848, 1847, 1853, 
and again in 1857; on one of these occasions (1853) he was accom- 
panied by Professor John Morris, M.A., F.G.S., and on another 
(1857) by Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S.’ Nor was Sir Charles 
Lyell a less interested observer of his labours. In 1851 the 
Council of the Geological Society of London awarded Barrande 
the ‘“‘ Wollaston Fund” to assist him in prosecuting his arduous 
and costly geological work, and on that occasion, and also in 
1857, when the same Society presented him with the “ Wollaston 
Medal,” Sir Charles Lyell bore the highest testimony to the value 
and importance of M. Barrande’s work. On the latter occasion Sir 
Charles alluded to his having visited him in 1856, and explored with 
him the field of his successful researches. ‘‘I saw,” said Lyell, 
‘several of the large quarries, which he had opened at his own cost 
for the express purpose of collecting fossils, and heard him converse 
in their native Bohemian with the workmen whom he has taught 
to be his skilful fellow-labourers. I believe I am under the mark 
if I estimate at 1500 in number of new species of Invertebrata which 
M. Barrande has added to paleontology ; and it is a singular fact 
that all the Bohemian fossils found by him in Paleozoic strata 
older than the Devonian have proved, with the exception of a 
few Brachiopods, to belong to species unknown elsewhere. When 
I beheld the quantity and beautiful preservation of the fossil stores 
heaped up in his Museum at Prague, they appeared to be more like 
the results of a Government Survey than the acquisitions of a 
private individual, and I felt convinced that no amount of zeal or 
pecuniary resources could have achieved this object had not the col- 
lector possessed also a profound knowledge of many distinct branches 
of natural history. M. Barrande’s investigations have for ever set at 
1 The writer of this notice had also the happiness to visit the illustrious Barrande 
in his unpretentious apartments in the Kleinseite No. 419, Choteksgasse, Prague, 
in 1876. 
