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Inzersdorfer Beds of the Hungarian Tertiary basins ” (8) ; from the former two, and from 
t e latter eight species are described and figured as new. Two papers (9 and 10) “on the 
? South_western Hungary ” were the next to appear ; these being followed in the 
year 1864 by “A critical notice of Herr F. v. Rdmer’s description of the North German 
tertiary Polypanans ’ (11). 
(e Refemn ? to this period in a letter to the writer, Herr Ritter y. Hauer says: “Fully 
t£ ^ P1>ai ' < ' ri | m these first works of Stoliczka are the conscientious accuracy and extensive 
„ 7' ow h:dge Of which he gave such ample proof in later life. He acquired for himself 
tf ? Unn i g /: 1S resiclence amongst us, in equal manner as he did later in India, the sincerest 
friendship and regard of all his colleagues.” 
In the interval which elapsed between the publication of the last paper and those which 
preceded it, Stoliczka, already a palaeontologist with a made reputation, had entered upon the 
new held of his labours. 
In the year 1862, Dr. Oldham, the Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, visited 
Europe, lor the purpose of obtaining four additional assistants for the staff of the Survey. 
Large numbers of fossils had been accumulated by the labours of the Geological Survey in 
Southern India and elsewhere, and awaited the arrival in India of a qualified describer * It 
was important on this account that at least one of the four assistants to be selected should be 
a competent palaeontologist. Application was therefore made in Vienna to Dr. Haidinger and 
rofessor Suess, with the result that Stoliczka was named as a palaeontologist with an 
already established reputation, and as he proved, when introduced to Dr. Oldham, to be not 
only willing, but most anxious to obtain service in India, he was at once recommended to 
the Secretary of State for India as a suitable candidate to fill one of the vacant posts. Soon 
a terwards he was duly appointed. In order to make the acquaintance of some of his future 
colleagues, and see the country whose service he had entered, he forthwith paid his first visit 
to England, and was present at the meeting of the British Association which was held in the 
autumn of the year 1862 at Cambridge, together with Mr. W. T. Blanford, who was at that 
time home from India on leave, and also with Mr. A. B. Wynne, another of the newly 
appointed surveyors, by whom Stoliczka is described as being at that time a slight young 
fellow, wearing spectacles, and having a black beard and long hair brushed back AH who 
met him then, m spite of his difficulty in expressing himself in English, were impressed 
w! ! his unaffected geniality. The three colleagues were to have sailed for India together, 
but as Blanford and Wynne received instructions to take up work at Bombay, and Stoliczka 
was bound for the head office at Calcutta, this project was not carried out, and he started 
alone. 
On arrival in Calcutta the Cretaceous Fossils of Southern India were placed in his 
ands, and he soon set to work on his magnum opus , which, when completed, in 1873 
contained 1,454 pages and 176 plates. 
In the year 1864 Stoliczka made his first acquaintance with the Himalayas, and as a result 
f f 6 JOUrne 7 wluch lie took in company with Mr. F. R. Mallet, of the Geological Survey who 
had previously visited a part of the same region, he published a memoir on the sections 
across the mountains from Wangtu Bridge, on the River Sutlej, to Sangdo on the Indus, to 
which was added an account of the geological formations in Spiti, with a revision of all the 
known fossils from that district (15). 
„ S ffi hlS u ntr< ! dX ?i t0ry . rem . arks he sa F s ’ “ there are few parts of India which offer so many 
difficulties to the scientific traveller as that elevated tract of mountains which borders the 
