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his work, and that love of accuracy and thoroughness which made 

 his first memoir a classic, but retained that sympathy with younger 

 workers which made him ever ready to aid them generously from 

 the stores of his own knowledge. He led them enthusiastically to 

 his own critical sections in the field, and followed their future 

 progress in the science with keen interest. To European workers 

 among the Lower Palaeozoic rocks and fossils, Schmidt's Baltic 

 Provinces were a land of frequent and pleasant pilgrimage, and 

 Schmidt himself the most instructive and stimulating of guides. 



Schmidt was elected a Foreign Correspondent of this Society in 

 1890 and a Foreign Member in 1895. He was awarded the Wol- 

 laston Medal in 1902, ' as a grateful acknowledgment of the value 

 of his scientific researches.' But it is not by these researches alone, 

 great as they were, that at the present moment his name will be 

 recalled by those who knew him best. Bather will his memory 

 be enshrined by them as that of a true geologist, quiet but deep 

 in his enthusiasm, unremitting in his industry, thorough in his 

 work, and heartily sympathetic with all other researchers in the 

 field. [C. L.] 



Albert Aegeste de Lapp arent (1839-1908) l . — -Albert Auguste 

 de Lapparent was born at Bourges on December 13th, 1839, and 

 came of an old aristocratic stock. He held the first place among 

 the students of his year when he entered the ' Ecole Polytechnique.' 

 From there he proceeded to the School of Mines, and in 1864 he 

 qualified as a Government Mining Engineer. Shortly afterwards 

 his master, Elie de Beaumont, invited him to join the staff of the 

 Geological Survey, which had been recently organized. A part of 

 his work in this connexion consisted of a study of the Pays de Bray 

 in Normandy, which is a denuded dome, or a kind of diminutive 

 "Weald : it was most successfully accomplished, and very precise 

 results were obtained by applying geometrical methods to the 

 delineation of the outcrop of a carefully-selected thin layer of the 

 Upper Greensand. 



From 1865 to 1880 he was one of the editors of the ' Bevue de 

 Geologie ' ; he thus maintained a close acquaintance with the 

 annual progress of our science, and at the same time received a 



1 I am indebted, for much of the material on which this obituary is based, 

 to M. M. Allorge. 



