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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The usually quiet city of Prague in Bohemia, with its population of 235,000 inhabitants, considerably more than half of whom are Czechs, has been deeply moved by the recent death of an old French exile, who for more than half a century had made his home there, and, having taken up the geology of the country around Prague for his study, had endeared himself to the people by learning their language and interesting them in his pursuits. After publishing at great cost his geological works, and amassing a vast collection of fossils, he has at his death bequeathed his Library and Collections (valued at £20,000) to the Prague Museum, together with funds for the completion of his scientific labours. “To-day,” writes Dr. Fritsch, “I have opened a ‘Barrande Fund’ with 1,000 florins, which I hope will soon reach to fl. 20,000; its object being to promote the study of the Silurian formations of Bohemia. We also wish to place a large slab inscribed with the name of ‘Barrande’ on the Silurian rocks in Kuchelbad, near the celebrated locality Wiskočilka, where he picked up his first fossil Orthoceras Bohemicum.”
page 529 note 1 We are greatly indebted to Dr. Anton Fritsch for kindly sending us the portraitengraving of M. Barrande which accompanies this notice, and also for various German newspaper and other notices, from one of which, by Prof J. Krejči, this Memoir has been chiefly compiled. – EDIT. GEOL. MAG.
page 529 note 2 Director of the Natural History Museum in Prague.
page 530 note 1 See “Uebersicht der Gebirgsformationen in Böhmen,” 1831.
page 530 note 2 See bis Prodrom einer Monographic der Bbhmischer Trilobiten, 1847.
page 531 note 1 The writer of this notice had also the happiness to visit the illustrious Barrande in his unpretentious apartments in the Kleinseite No. 119, Choteksgasse, Prague, in 1876.