BARRANDE, JOACHIM (r ; ), Austrian geologist and palaeontologist, was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, on Aug. I 1, 1799, and educated in the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris. He was tutor to the duc de Bordeaux (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), grandson of Charles X., and when the king abdicated in 183o Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to Prague. The first volume of his important work, Systeme silurien du centre de la Boheme (dealing with trilobites), appeared in 185 2 ; and from that date until 1881 he issued 21 quarto volumes of text and plates. Two other volumes were issued after his death, in 1887 and 1894. He died at Frohsdorf on Oct. 5, 1883.