WILHELM HEINRICH

WAAGEN (1841–1900)  , German palaeontologist, was born at Munich on the 23rd of June 184' . He was educated at Munich and Zurich, and through the influence of A . Oppel he commenced to study the rocks and fossils of the Jurassic system, and published an essay in '865, Versuch einer Allgemeinen Classification der Schichten des oberen Jura . In '87o he joined the staff of the Geological Survey of India, and was appointed palaeontologist in 1874, but was obliged to retire through ill-health in '875 . He published important monographs in the Palaeontologia Indicts on the palaeontology of Cutch (1873–'876) and the Salt Range (1879–1883), dealing in the last-named wort: -vith fossils from the Lower Cambrian to the Trias . In 1879 he was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology in the German technical high school at Prague, and he became a contributor to the continuation of Barrande's great work on the SystEme Silurien de Bohe"me . In 1890 he became professor of palaeontology at the university of Vienna, and in '898 the Lyell medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of London . He died in Vienna on the 24th of March 1900 .