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Deep and widespread was the grief caused by the sad intelligence conveyed in these letters. 
Ample testimony of the esteem which was felt, both for the personal qualities and the 
scientific ability of the deceased, will he found in the numerous obituary notices, references 
to some of the more important of which, omitting those in the daily press, will he found 
below, f 
The Government of India in due course took steps to place a suitable inscription over the 
grave, by means of which their high appreciation of Dr. Stoliczka as a public servant and as 
a man of science was fully recorded. The Austrian Government voted 1001. for the purpose 
of having a bust executed for Vienna of one who as an Austrian subject had by his dis- 
tinguished career done honour to the country of his birth, as well as to that of his 
adoption. 
The Asiatic Society of Bengal, remembering the eminent services of their Natural History 
Secretary, lost no time in forming a committee for the purpose of collecting subscriptions in 
order to perpetuate Dr. Stoliczka’s memory at the scene of his principal labours. To them 
appeal for this purpose a ready and generous response was made, and a sum of nearly 3501. 
was collected, part of which was expended in obtaining a marble bust, which now stands near 
the entrance of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, and the remainder was devoted to procuring 
a painted portrait, which is hung in the apartments of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
It needs not that this narrative should conclude with any special panegyrics on the merits 
of the scientific work accomplished by Dr. Stoliczka. The story of his short and active life 
which has been set forth in these pages, much of it being told in his own words, will enable 
readers of it who had not the privilege of knowing him to form their own opinion and pass 
judgment on the facts herein set forth. If this memoir has been written as the subject 
deserved that it should be written, those whose knowledge of the man dates only from the 
reading of these pages can scarcely fail to join in the chorus of testimony which unanimously 
declared the loss science had suffered by his untimely death at the age of only 36. It avails 
uot to speculate now upon what has been lost to the world by the sudden cessation of the woik 
which proceeded from that well stored and industrious brain. But while we give Dr. Stoliczka s 
memory all honour for the great work which he accomplished, we must not, nay cannot, 
°mit to accord the still higher honour which should belong to the memory of one of so 
unselfish, generous, and upright a character, and of whom it can truly be said that though he 
was at times subject to causes of irritation arising from the severity of the climate and fiom 
ill-health, and though his superior judgment in scientific matters might have tempted him to 
be severe, still his published and unpublished letters, no less than his printed papers, are 
totally devoid of anvthing which could cause annoyance to any of his contemporaries. 
As an author and" scientific authority it is perhaps not too much to say that he might have 
secured for himself a wider reputation if he had published more largely in European journals, 
und if he had become a contributing member of some of the scientific societies in London , 
t Obit dart Notices op Dr. Stoliczka. 
By Col. Hyde, President, A.S.B., and Mr. H. B. Medlicott, Proc. As. Socy. Bengal, 1874, p. 153. 
Verhandlungen der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 1874, pp. 253 and 279. 
By Dr. T. Oldham. Annual Report of the Geological Survey of India : Rec. Geol. Survey of India, Vol. VIII 
1875, p. 1. 
By Mr. H. B. Medlicott. Records of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. VII, p. 81. 
Geological Magazine, Decade II, Vol. I, 1874, p. 382. 
Ibis, 3rd Series, Vol. IV, p. 470. 
By Mr. W. T. Blanford. “Nature,” X, p. 185. 
