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.”