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eighteen as new. Objection has been well taken by the stu- 
dents of Texan geology to the assignment of this fauna to 
the Upper Huronian for, as a matter of fact, the strata are 
Lower Cretaceous, and cannot be correlated with that form- 
ation. 
But Roemer was a mineralogist as well as a geologist ana 
paleontologist. In a practical way this was shown in his 
great work at the Breslau Museum. His love for minerals 
was strong and his knowledge such that he was envied by the 
younger men who specialized in that line. It has, however, 
been said that his greatest service to mineralogy was that he 
“saved” to that science the incomparable Websky. 
Again, Roemer was a man of wide experience in travel. 
Not only did he visit North America, but in Europe every 
country and some countries several times; England in 1851, 
1866, 1871, and 1876; Ireland in 1883; Holland and Belgium 
in 1854; Sweden in 1856 and 1878; Austria and Upper Italy 
in 1857; Piedmont and Bohemia in 1858; Norway in 1859; 
France in 1860; Russia in 1861; Turkey in 1863; Spain In 
1864 and 1872; Switzerland in 1869. These journeys, his 
numerous publications and an unusual aptitude in acquiring 
foreign languages, made him probably the best known Ger- 
man geologist of his time. 
As would naturally be expected, his long and active career 
brought him many honors both at home and abroad: in recog- 
nition of his great service to science he was invested with a 
title by the state and elected to membership in many of the 
learned societies, among which may be mentioned the Geo- 
logical Society of London, ‘1859; the Royal Academy of Sci- 
ence, Berlin, 1869; the Imperial Academy of Science, St. 
Petersburg, 1874; the Royal Bavarian Academy of Science, 
Munich, 1885. In the year last mentioned he was also the 
recipient of the Murchison medal of the Geological Society. 
'Roemer’s knowledge was not, however, entirely confined 
to science, though its range here was surprisingly great; he 
was also well informed in the classics and belle letters. His 
nature was winning, his manner attractive, and his influence 
with the young great. It scarcely need be said that he had 
many friends and admirers. Although happily married for 
twenty-three years he. was childless, yet his love of children 
