On February 23, 1911, at the age of 65, the former director and honored professor of the Mining Institute, mining engineer Joseph Ivanovich Laguzen, died of a stroke. He did a lot of work on paleontology and geology of Russia. In paleontology, his works were varied, but were mainly devoted to the study and description of the fossil faunas of the Jurassic and Cretaceous systems. In 1887, he published good lithographed notes on the course of paleontology, and in 1895-1897 he published „A Short Course in Paleontology.” This is the first paleontology textbook published by a Russian professor. This work, in its significance, goes beyond the limits of the textbook, just as it went beyond the limits of the course taught at the Mining Institute. The article provides a list of scientific works of I. I. Laguzen from 1868 to 1891.