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Period of Belgium, but lie has also contributed several memoirs 

 on those of the Eastern Hemisphere. 



His first important work was "Description cles Animaux 

 Fossiles qui se trouvent dans le Terrain carbonifere de Belgique" 

 (2 vols, and supt., Liege, 1842-57). This was followed, and to 

 some extent ran concurrently with his " Monographic du Genre 

 Productus" (8vo., Liege, 1846), which is of interest to Australian 

 students as containing the description of the Australian species 

 of that genus. In 1872, Prof, de Koninck published his 

 " ISTouvelle Pecherches sur les Animaux Fossiles du Terrain 

 carbonifere de la Belgique" (4to., Bruxelles, 1872), in which a 

 revised description of the Belgian Carboniferous Coal-fauna was 

 given. To workers in this continent, however, by far the most 

 valuable of all this eminent observer's works is his " Recherches 

 sur les Fossiles paleozoiques de la Nouvelle Galles clu Sucl " 

 (2 vols. 4to., Bruxelles, 1876-77).* This is a description of the 

 gatherings of the late Pev. W. B. Clarke, extending over a long- 

 series of years ; and it is deeply to be regretted that the result of 

 so much profound study was wholly consumed in the unfortunate 

 Garden Palace fire in 1882. This is the more deeply to be 

 deplored when we remember that the fossils in question formed 

 the types of many new species, hitherto unknown to Science, and 

 •of which many specimens have not since been obtained. Of all 

 his publications, however, that which will carry his name down 

 to posterity as his " magnum opus " is that truly magnificent 

 work, " Faune du Calcarie Carbonifere de la Belgique," published 

 in folio in the ' Annales du Musee Poyal d'Historie Naturelle de 

 Pelgique' (folio, Bruxelles). He died, July 16th, 1887. 



Sir John Francis Julius von Haast, K.C.M.G., Ph.D., 

 F.P.S., &c, was Professor of Geology in Canterbury College, 

 Christchurch, New Zealand, and Director of the Museum. 



# An English translation of this work, with plates, edited by Mr. Robt. 

 Etheridge, junr., Palaeontologist, is in course of publication by the 

 Department of Mines, Sydney. 



