OUtuary — Dr. Georg Justin Carl JJrhan Schloenhach. 477 



Ekkatum. — Geol. Mag. for September. In Mr. Searles Y. 

 Wood, jun's. paper '' on the Sequence of tlie Glacial Beds," p. 410, 

 line 2 from bottom of page, for Dentalium dentale read Dentaliwm 

 entale. 



Dentalium dentale (Mid-Glacial shell) occurs exclusively to the 

 South of Britain. Dentalium entale (Lancashire fossil) is a British 

 species. 



OBTTTJ.A^ie'Y'. 



Dr. Geoeg Justin Carl Urban Schloenbach. — Born on the 

 10th- of March, 1841, at Liebenhall, near Salzgitter, in Hanover, 

 he studied principally natural history, chemistry, botany, geology, 

 and palaeontology, at the Universities of Gottingen, Tubingen, and 

 Munich, under the celebrated Professors Bodecker, Quenstedt, and 

 Oppel. The influence and tuition of the two latter men of science 

 induced Schloenbach to decide upon his future career, and constant 

 intercourse with such warm friends of geological science developed 

 the interest which the young student afterwards took in Jurassic 

 fossils. In 1862 he went to Berlin, where he completed his studies 

 under Professors Beyrich and Gustav Rose. The year after he 

 gained his degree as Doctor of Philosophy, at the University of 

 Halle, by his work on the Ironstone of the Middle Lias of North- 

 western Germany. After travelling and seeing the most interesting 

 localities of Germany and France, he produced his second paper 

 (see list). He devoted himself much to the study of the Cretaceous 

 formation, in the mean time publishing a series of papers on Jurassic 

 fossils. In 1867 he went to the Tyrol, and while staying in 

 Vienna to see the large collection of fossils, etc., of the k. k. Geol. 

 Eeichsanstalt, he was oflfered an appointment in this Institute, 

 which he accepted, declining at the same time the office of Director 

 of a new Mining School in Peru. Until he became Professor of 

 Geology of the Polytechnic Institute of Prague in 1870, he re- 

 mained in Vienna, much liked and respected, an active and energetic 

 member of the k. k. Geol. Eeichsanstalt. It was whilst engaged, 

 for this Institute, travelling in Servia, that his constitution broke 

 down, under the tremendous fatigue which geologists in these parts 

 have sometimes to undergo. Camping out in what is by no means a 

 tropical latitude brought on rheumatism, and shortly afterwards 

 congestion of the lungs ended his life, after a painful but short 

 illness. He published the following papers : — 



" TJeber den Eisenstein des mittlern Lias im Nordwestliclien Deutscliland mit 

 Beriicksiclitigung der altern und jiingern LiasscMchten."— Inaugural Dissertation ; 

 afterwards reprinted in Vol. 15 of the Deutsch. Geol. Ges. 



Die Schichtenfolge des untern und mittlern Lias in Norddeutschland. Neues 

 Jahrb. Leonh. und Gein. 1863. 



TJeber die Parallelen zwischen dem oberen Planer Norddeutschlands und dengleich- 

 altrigen Bildungen im Seinebecken. Neues Jahrb. von Leonh. und Geinitz, 1866. 



Ueber einige neue und weniger bekannte jurassiche Ammoniten Cassel, 1865. 

 Palaontograpbica, Vol. 13. 



