Obituary Notices

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WE regret to announce the death on August 3 of Prof. Josef Woldrich, director of the State Geological Institute at Prague, at the age of fifty-seven years. Born in Vienna, Prof. Woldrnich became well known in Central Europe for his geological investigations, which began with a re-examination of certain Bohemian rocks, notably those studied by the Frenchman Barrande and more recently by the late Prof. J. E. Marr of Cambridge. After the Great War, he was appointed to the chair of geology at the new University of Brno in Moravia. Here he commenced a series of geological studies of the lesser-known districts of Slovakia, a work of extreme importance for the compilation of the modern geological maps of Czechoslovakia. He had been director of the State Geological Institute for the past three years.