Obituary

Abstract

BOHEMIAN palaeontology has suffered a great loss by the death of Prof. C. Kloucek on October 11, 1935. He was born in 1855 and began life as a sculptor. In 1903, when more than fifty years of age, he started collecting fossils from nodules and stones on the land in the neighbourhoods of Rokycany and Prague. In these (Lower Ordovician Z)y) he found many new species of trilobites and other forms of life. He likewise proved that the Osek-Kvan series of Ordovician age represented two distinct faunistic horizons. But his greatest discovery came from his study of the Tremadocian, which he began in 1913. Before his day, these beds were little known, so that he can be regarded as the discoverer of the Tremadocian in Czechoslovakia. He did very important work in the stratigraphy of these beds, dividing them into various horizons, according to the type fossils.