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indebted in regard to the palseontological relations of that kingdom, 

 but it also dealt "with other parts of Europe. Among his more 

 notable works are those on the Fossils of the Coal Measures 

 of Saxony, on the Cretaceous Formations of Saxony, comparing 

 them with those of England, on the Animal Remains of the Permian, 

 and on the Elbthalgebirge of Saxony, and these are the more 

 valuable from being well illustrated. 



He received many orders and honours, held various offices, and 

 was highly revered as a teacher and leader. 1 



Franz Eitter von Hatter was elected a Foreign Correspondent 

 in 1863, and Foreign Member in 1871. He was Wollaston 

 Medallist in 1882, and died on March 20th, 1899. 



He has been called the Nestor of Austrian geologists, having 

 been for many years Director of the Geological Survey and Chief 

 Curator of the Imperial Natural History Museum. 



He was born in Vienna in 1822, and educated there until he 

 went to the Mining Academy at Schemnitz, where he remained from 

 1839 to 1843. He afterwards became a mining official in Styria, 

 and in 1846 was made Assistant to Haidinger at the Imperial 

 Mineralogical Museum in his native city, when he began original 

 pakrontological work. He succeeded Haidinger as chief of the 

 Museum, and held that post from 1867 to 1885. 



On the death of F. von Hochstetter he was made Chief Curator of 

 the Imperial Natural History Museum, in which post he did important 

 work, retiring at last on account of old age and ill health. 



He was the first to classify the Alpine sedimentary rocks on 

 a strictly stratigraphical basis, and published a work on the 

 Cephalopoda of the Trias and Jura of the eastern Alpine regions. 

 His general map of the Austrian Empire (in 12 sheets, published 

 1867-71, reaching a fourth and extended edition in 1884), and his 

 account of the geology of that empire, published in 1875, fittingly 

 crown his works. 2 



Prof. Othniel Charles Marsh was elected a Fellow in 1863, 

 and was transferred to the list of Foreign Members in 1898. He 

 was the first Eigsby Medallist (1877), and died on March 18th, 

 1899. 



1 See also the obituary notice in Geol. Mag. 1900, pp. 143-144. 



2 From a notice by Va^ek in Verb. k.-k. geol. Reichsanst. 1899, no. 4, 

 pp. 119-126. 



