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George Henry Frederick TJlrich, Professor of Mining and 

 Mineralogy in the University of Otago, was born at Zellerfeld 

 (Prussia) in 1830. He was educated in the High School of his 

 native town, and subsequently graduated at the Royal School of 

 Mines at Clausthal. After four years' service in the Mining 

 Department of the Prussian Government he went to Victoria, where, 

 in 1857, he received an appointment in the Royal Mining Com- 

 mission. He subsequently joined the Geological Survey of the 

 Colony under the directorship of Dr. Selwyn, and held the office of 

 senior field-geologist at the time of its abolition in 1869. He 

 then became the curator of the mineral section of the Industrial <fe 

 Technological Museum in Melbourne. In 1875 he paid his first 

 visit to 'New Zealand, the colony in which he was destined to end 

 his days, and reported on the Otago Goldfields. 



Two years later he was appointed Professor of Mining and 

 Mineralogy, in the newly-created Mining School connected with the 

 University of Otago. It was uphill work for some time, but by 

 dint of energy, perseverance, and enthusiasm, he succeeded in 

 getting together the necessary appliances, and finally established a 

 flourishing school whose students are now found in responsible 

 positions, not only in the various States of the Australian Common- 

 wealth, but also in New Zealand, South Africa, and the United 

 States. 



He communicated papers to this Society on the Nuggetty Reef 

 of the Mount Tarrangower Goldfield (1870), on the Tin-Ore Dis- 

 coveries in N'ew South Wales (1873), and on the Nickel- Iron AUoy, 

 Awaruite, from New Zealand (1887 & 1890). 



Though hampered of late 3*ears by ill-health, his zeal continued 

 unabated till the end, and was, indeed, the cause of his death. On 

 May 26th, 1900, he lost his footing while examining the geology 

 of Plagstaif Point, Port Chalmers, and fell a distance of 100 feet. 

 He never recovered consciousness, and passed away some few hours 

 afterwards. 



WrLHELM Waagen, Profcssor of Palaeontology at the University 

 of Vienna, died in that city on March 24th, 1900. He was born 

 at Munich, on June 23rd, 1841, and received there, and at Zurich, 

 a sound scientific education, in which the guidance and influence 

 of his distinguished teacher, Oppel, may bo recognized as a leading 

 factor. This was shown by Waagen's early writings ; and we must 

 place him, with Neumayr, among the most renowned represen- 

 tatives of Oppel's school. 



