SZABO VON  SZENTMIKLbS, JOZSEF (1822-1894), Hungarian geologist, was

born at Kalocsa, on the 14th of March 1822 . His first contribution to science was an essay on metallurgy, in which subject he had received special training . Afterwards he settled at Budapest and investigated the geology of the district, the results of which were published in a geological map (1858) . In 18J9 he joined the staff of the Austrian Geological Survey, as a volunteer member, and paid attention to the economic as well as to the purely scientific aspects of the work . He also arranged for surveys having special reference to agricultural geology to be undertaken by the Hungarian Geological Institute . In 1862 he became professor of geology and mineralogy in the university of Budapest . In later years he devoted himself largely to petrology, and published memoirs on the trachytes of Hungary and Transylvania; on a new method of determining the species of felspars in rocks, depending on fusibility and flame-coloration; on the geology and petrology of the district of Schemnitz; and on Santorin Island . He died at Budapest on the 12th of April 1894 . He was author of Geologie mit besonderer Riicksicht auf die Petrographie, den Vulkanismus u. die Hydrographie (1883) .