384 Obituary — Dr. Thomas Oldham, F.E.S. 



1. Aimiial Reports, commenced in 1858. 



2. Becords, issued quarterly, containing brief reports and papers forming abstracts 

 of more detailed work, and notices of recent discoveries, etc. Royal Svo. 

 About 11 volumes published, commenced in 1868. 



3. Memoirs, in royal 8vo., illustrated by Plates and coloured Maps of the several 

 districts, of which 14 volumes have appeared, commenced in 1859. 



4. The Palceontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the Organic Ee- 

 mains obtained during the progress of the Geological Survey of India. Eleven 

 separate series published. 



Being in England in 1867, Dr. Oldham attended the Meeting of 

 the British Association at Dundee, and presented an elaborate Eeport 

 on the Geology of India. 



Dr. Oldham's last work, in connexion with the Geological Survey 

 of India, was to complete the transfer of the very extensive collections 

 and library from the former Indian Geological Survey Office to its 

 new quarters in the large Imperial Museum of Calcutta, where they 

 are now favourably located under the present able Superintendent, 

 Mr. Henry B. Medlicott, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Dr. Oldham was chosen an M.R.I. A. in 1842. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 

 1843 ; and of the Royal Society in 1848. 



He was elected a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 in 1857, serving fourteen years on the Council and four times 

 elected its President. A bust of Dr. Oldham was obtained by its 

 members and placed in the Society's rooms. 



He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society in 1875 ; the 

 Emperor of Austria also presented him with a gold medal for his 

 eminent geological labours in India. 



He was an honorary or corresponding Member of the Imjoerial 

 Academy and of the " Isis " Society of Dresden ; of the Imperial 

 Society of Naturalists, Moscow ; of the Royal Geological Society 

 of Cornwall ; of the Geological Society of Edinburgh ; and of the 

 Zoological Society of London. 



He was the discoverer in 1849 of Oldhamia in the Cambrian rocks 

 of the Wicklow Hills, Ireland (named after him by Prof. Edward 

 Forbes), the then oldest known fossil organic remain. 



In 1850 he married Miss L. M. Dixon, daughter of William Dixon, 

 Esq., of Liverpool, by whom he had five sons and one daughter. 



Since Dr. Oldham's retirement from the post of Superintendent of 

 the Geological Survey of India, he has resided at Eldon Place, 

 Rugby. He was lately appointed Examiner in Geology to the 

 University of London, and had fulfilled a similar office to the Indian 

 Civil Service College at Cooper's Hill. His final illness was of 

 brief duration, his last hours of active work being spent in reviewing 

 Barrande's Cephalopoda of Bohemia, and F. V. Hayden's grand Geo- 

 logical and Geographical Atlas of Colorado, both of which will be 

 found in the present Number. But the friendly hand that penned 

 them did not live to correct the proofs. Adopting the words of one 

 of his colleagues, we may truly say, that, "in Dr. Oldham's death we 

 have to regret the loss of one who was a good man, a faithful friend, 

 and a profound observer of Nature." 



