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dcfatigable in collecting specimens of all kinds for the enrichment of 

 the museum under his charge. He acquired a very wide knowledge 

 of general natural history, and paid much attention to geological 

 phenomena, which, in conjunction with the direction of his special 

 botanical studies, early led him to the investigation of fossil plants, 

 upon which he was destined to become one of the chief authorities 

 of our day. He associated himself with Kochlin-Schlumberger in 

 the preparation of a great memoir upon the Terrain de Transition 

 des Vosges, published at Strasburg in 1862 ; to this Schimper con- 

 tributed the monograph of the fossil plants. 



In 1849 he married a Swiss lady who had been long an ardent 

 student of botany, and who afterwards assisted him in his studies, 

 and especially in the accumulation of the vast stores of materials 

 upon which he founded his greatest work, the ' Traite de Paleon- 

 tologie Yegetale,' published in three large 8vo volumes, w T ith a 4to 

 atlas of plates, of which the first volume appeared in 1869. This 

 important treatise upon the fossil flora will long be a standard 

 work of reference. Subsequently Schimper commenced the 

 botanical section of Prof. Zittel's admirable ' Handbuch der Pala- 

 ontologie,' which, however, he did not live to complete. 



Joseph Augtjstin Hubert Bosquet, of Maestricht, Doctor of 

 Sciences, Pharmacien, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 of Amsterdam, was elected a Foreign Correspondent of t be Geological 

 Society in 1864. In 1868 the Council awarded the balance of the 

 proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund to Dr. Hubert Bosquet 

 as a reward for his valuable researches on the Tertiary and Cre- 

 taceous strata of Holland and Belgium. Dr. Bosquet worked out 

 with great industry and ability the fauna of the Maestricht beds, 

 a division of the tipper Chalk not present in England. His re- 

 searches amongst the Tongrian beds greatly extended our know- 

 ledge of these Tertiary deposits, both as regards their palaeontology 

 and physical conditions. Bosquet's labours were undertaken and 

 carried on amidst business duties, and with zeal and ability rarely 

 excelled. He was the author of twelve or fourteen contributions 

 both to geological and palaeontological science. His chief papers 

 are : — " Description des Entomostraces fossiles de la craie de Mae- 

 stricht " (Mem. Soc. Sci. Liege, vol. vi. 1847) ; and " Description 

 des Entomostraces fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France 

 et de la Belgique" (Mem. Couronn. Bruxelles, xxiv. 1850-51). 

 His papers entitled " Les Crustaces fossiles du terrain Cretace 

 du Limbourg" (JNederland. Geol. Kaart Verhand. ii. 1854) and 

 " Eecherches Paleontologiques sur les terrains tertiaires du Lim- 

 bourg Ncerlandais " (Amsterdam, Verhand. vii. 1859), are of much 

 importance. Dr.Bosquet died on the 28th of June, 1880, aged 

 66 years and 10 months. 



Pierre Henri Ntst, Conservator at the Museum of Natural 

 History at Brussels, was elected a Foreign Correspondent of 



