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In the opinion of competent judges, the ability which he showed 

 in these various new directions was quite on a par with that which 

 had brought him distinction as a pure mathematician. Indeed, 

 if his mathematical achievements could be forgotten, he would 

 still have left a great name as a theologian and as an administrator. 

 Personally he was a striking figure, full of grace and dignity and 

 energy, even to the last. He died on January 22nd, 1904. 



H. L. 



In the death of Carl Alfrkd von Zittel, who died on 

 January 5th, 1904, the Society has lost an honorary member of 

 the highest distinction. He was elected in 1895. Born in 

 Baden in 1839, Zittel studied natural science in Heidelberg, and 

 more especially geology and paleontology. After taking his 

 doctor's degree, he studied the rich fossil treasures of France, 

 and attended the lectures of the eminent tertiary paleontologist, 

 Hebert. In 1861 he became /^r/m/ (S^^^g/z/ in the University of 

 Vienna, and was appointed to the position of assistant in the 

 Natural History Museum of that city. At the age of 24 

 he accepted the professorship of Mineralogy, Geognosy, and 

 Paleontology at the Polytechnicum of Karlsruhe. In 1866 he 

 succeeded Oppel in the chair of Paleontology in the University 

 of Munich, and in 1899 his high scientific position was recognised 

 by his being chosen to replace Pettenkofer as President of the 

 Bavarian Academy of Sciences. It was in Munich that the main 

 work of his life was carried on. 



There he organised the museum so that it became one of 

 the best in Germany, and there he published the large number 

 of works which have landed him in the first rank of Paleontolo- 

 gists. He was one of the few who had knowledge of both the 

 recent and fossil forms, and who could bring to bear upon the 

 study of a fossil group the results of original research in the 

 analogous living types. His opus inagmwi, the Handbuch der 

 Paleontologie, which came out in five volumes between 1876 

 and 1893, was written with a knowledge that made it the book 

 of reference of the day by paleontologists. It is now the only 



