FERDINAND STOLICZKA, Ph.D. 
Ferdinand Stoliczka, the subject of this Memoir, was born at Hochwald, in Moravia, in 
the month of May 1838. His father was a Forest Officer in Kremsier, and though but little 
is on record of Stoliczka’s early life, it may, perhaps, be assumed that at this period there 
were opportunities afforded to him, which we cannot but suppose he eagerly availed of, 
for cultivating that ardent love of nature which characterised in a remarkable manner the 
man in after life. 
His school education was obtained at the “ Gymnasium ” in Prague, from whence he pro- 
ceeded to the University of Vienna, where he largely devoted his time to Natural Science, 
and especially to those branches of it which are most intimately connected with Geology. 
On graduating from the University he took the degree of Doctor in Philosophy. 
To Professor Siiess, who still presides over the Geological Department in the University of 
Vienna, he was indebted for his first regular training in Geology, and with the “friendly and 
“ almost fatherly aid of Dr. Hornes, of the Imperial Cabinet, he made his first essay in 
Palaeontology.” 
Ur. Stoliczka’s first paper of which we have any record was a description of certain species 
of fresh-water Mollusca which characterise a stratum associated with the marine beds of the 
cretaceous formation in the North-eastern Alps. 
This paper ( L),* which was presented to the Vienna Academy by Professor Siiess, and was 
subsequently published, contained descriptions of nine new species and a new genus 
( Deianira ) ; it was illustrated by a plate, which includes, besides figures of these species, one 
of the tooth of a saurian which was found associated in the same bed. Thus, it may be said, 
Was Stoliczka’s career as a palaeontologist commenced by a valuable and carefully worked 
out descriptive paper when he was only about 21 years old. 
One year later (1860) his second paper was read before and published by the same 
Academy (2). Its subject was the Gasteropoda and Acephalu of the Hierlatz Beds, and it 
contains descriptions and figures of about 40 new species. The plates are especially note- 
n orthy for their excellence ; they belong to a standard of quality to which Stoliczka often stiove 
to attain in India, but with only partial success, owing to the difficulties attending such 
^°rk in that country. These two papers were followed in quick succession by others on the 
-tertiary Fossils of the Southern Alps (3), and the Crystalline Schists ol Southern Hungaiy 
(4), &e. 
In the year 1861 Stoliczka became attached to the staff of the Austrian Geological Survey, 
°f which Dr. Haidinger was then the chief. In the following year two papers appeared 
0n a subject which he had in a very special manner made his own, namely, the Bryozoa ; 
Um first of these was entitled the “ Oligocene Bryozoa of Latdorf, in Bernburg,” and was 
published in the Proceedings of the Vienna Academy, with full illustrations (6) ; the second 
was on the “ Heteromorphous cell-formation of Bryozoa ( Coelophyma , Beuss),” and appeared 
in the Transactions of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna (7). The same volume 
contains a “ Contribution to the knowledge of the Molluscan fauna of the Cerithien and 
* These numbers refer to the Catalogue of Dr. .Stoliczka’s papers given on pp. 32 to 36. 
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