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JONS JONSSON. 

 Born March 31, 1848. Died August 29, 1894. 



WE regret to learn of the death by accidental drowning of this 

 energetic field-geologist attached to the Geological Survey of 

 Sweden. Intended at first for the priesthood, it was not till about 

 his thirtieth year that Jonsson turned to geology. Son of a landed 

 proprietor in South Scania, and connected with quarries in his early 

 youth, he was naturally led to the practical side of the science, and 

 greatly assisted in the agronomic development of his country by his 

 investigation of the softer rocks and superficial deposits. Of late 

 years he had largely devoted himself to an examination of the com- 

 position of the clays of Sweden, with reference to their utility for 

 bricks and terra-cotta, and it is a loss to his land and to science that 

 he died before his contemplated work was published. Jonsson's 

 name is to be found on five agronomic maps published by the 

 Swedish Geological Survey, and in other publications of that depart- 

 ment. He also published in Geologiska Foreningens i Stockholm Fbv- 

 handlingar, in Tidning for Stock holms lans Hushallningssallskap, in 

 Orebro lans Hush.-sallsk. quart alskrift, and in the memoirs of the Royal 

 Agricultural Academy {Kgl. Landbr. Ak. Handl.). The value of his 

 work, which is great, is due to the strictly scientific manner in which 

 it was conducted, and to his study of natural processes in preference 

 to empirical beliefs. A sympathetic notice by Hjalmar Lundbohm, 

 from which our information is extracted, appears in Geol. For. i 

 Stockholm Forhdl., vol. xvii., which has only just come to hand. 



On November 11 last, European naturalists were startled by a 

 telegram announcing the death of Dr. George Dawson, of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada. The person meant was probably 

 Professor George Lawson, of Dalhousie College, Halifax, who died 

 in that town on November 10. 



Among other deaths which it is our misfortune to announce are 

 those of Professor A. E. Foote, the mineralogist and dealer, of 

 Philadelphia, who died at Atlanta, Ga., on October 10 ; Dr. F. M. 

 Stapff, the geologist, at Usumbara ; he had only recently proceeded 

 to Africa, at the request of the German East African Company, to 

 prospect for gold; Charles Tyler, who was formerly associated with 

 the late Dr. J. S. Bowerbank in his researches on sponges and 

 protozoa, on November 2, in his 70th year ; A.J. Wortow, Professor 

 of Bacteriology at Moscow; Dr. Carl Steckelmann, the African 

 explorer, who was drowned on August 25 ; Mr. Edward Philip 

 Loftus Brock, Honorary Secretary of the British Archaeological 

 Association, on November 2 ; E. L. Ragonet, President of the 

 Societe Entomologique of France, and an eminent lepidopterist, in 

 Paris, on October 17. 



