﻿Ivi PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I908, 



He had been elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological 

 Society as far back as 1884, and became a Foreign Member in 

 1893. 



In the spring of 1871 he happily married Miss Charlotte Yoelker, 

 daughter of a banker in London, who survives him. His retirement 

 from the Survey did not mean a cessation of work on his part. Ifc 

 probably lengthened his life by several years, and enabled him to 

 continue the literary tasks on which he had been engaged, and 

 to take the same effective part which he had done for many 

 j-ears in the earthquake-investigations of the Vienna Academy. 

 In summer he escaped from the distractions of the Austrian capital 

 to his country-home at Mallnitz, one of the loveliest spots on the 

 southern slopes of the Hohe Tauern. While he was stajang there 

 in the autumn of last year, a cancerous growth developed itself in 

 his tongue and throat. The malignant disease made rapid progress, 

 in spite of all that medical skill and wifely devotion could do to 

 arrest it. He bore with heroic patience the tortures which he 

 suffered, until they were ended by his death on October 2nd, 1907. 



The special department of geology to which Mojsisovics gave up 

 his energies was the study of the Trias of the Eastern Alps. The 

 Salzkammergut had claimed his early affection, and it was there 

 that the idea shaped itself in his mind to devote himself to the 

 investigation of its rocks. Perhaps the autumn-excursions in that 

 delightful region which he took with Prof. Suess as far back as 1866 

 may have, in some measure, determined his resolution. Certainly 

 it was the rocks of the Salzkammergut that first fascinated him, 

 and to which he constantly returned all through his life. He there 

 realised that, in spite of the admirable work already done by Franz 

 von Hauer, Dionys Stur, Ferdinand von Richthofen, and others, a 

 wide field remained to be explored which might demand the labour 

 of a lifetime. 



One of the most fortunate circumstances in the career of our 

 lamented associate was that circumstances allowed him to con- 

 centrate his energies on this one subject and this one region. With 

 the exception of the year 1879, when, with Tietze and Bittner, he 

 was sent to make a geological reconnaissance of the provinces of 

 Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Austria had shortly before under- 

 taken to occupy, he continued to work at the Trias of the Eastern 

 Alps. Again and again, year after year, he climbed the rugged 

 slopes of these mountains, striving to make sure of the order and 

 to trace the distribution and variations of the strata, and collecting 



