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3n nOcmoriam. 



GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT. 



English geologists, and especially those interested in the 

 Glacial problems of the country, will regret to hear of the 

 death of George Frederick Wright, of Oberlin, Ohio, at the 

 age of eighty-five. 



Professor Wright was one of the pioneers in connexion 

 with the efforts formerly made to prove that the Glacial 

 deposits of his country, and ours, were the results of land-ice 

 as against ' submergence,' and thirty years or so ago, with 

 Warren Upham in America, and Kendall and others of this 

 country, discussions were continued at the meetings of various 

 scientific societies, and in the geological papers, on this sub- 

 ject. We think we can say, without fear or hesitation, 

 that their efforts proved successful, and that now-a-days, 

 excepting as the result of an occasional aberration, little is 

 heard of the ' submergence ' theory, the Noachian deluge, 

 or other exploded falacies. 



Professor Wright paid frequent visits to this country, and 

 made many friends among the geologists here. The present 

 writer can claim an intimate acquaintance with him for over 

 a quarter of a century. Not only did Professor Wright con- 

 tribute scores — one might almost say hundreds — of articles 

 to the press, but he was the author of many standard works 

 dealing with the more recent geological phenomena. So 

 long ago as 1893 he wrote ' Man and the Glacial Period,' 

 one of the ' International Scientific Series,' in which an epoch- 

 making chapter on the Glacial Geology of the British Islands 

 was contributed by Kendall. That book may be looked upon 

 as the foundation of the recent school of Glacial Geology, 

 and was in many ways a valuable production. Professor 

 Wright's other books include ' The Ice Age in North 

 America,' a substantial volume which has reached its fifth 

 edition ; ' The First Crossing of Greenland,' ' The Origin and 

 Antiquity of Man,' ' Scientific Confirmations of Old Testament 

 History,' and, in our last year's volume, we reviewed his 

 latest work, ' The Story of My Life and Work.' 



Latterly, Professor Wright's attentions were more devoted 

 towards endeavouring to prove that the various miracles, 

 etc., referred to in the Bible can be accounted for scientifically, 

 and he made excursions to Palestine, etc., for the purpose. 

 While he was always a courteous correspondent, a hard worker 

 and a voluminous writer, we look with the greatest satis- 

 faction to the years during which he was expounding the 

 Land Ice theory, — T.S. 



Naturalist 



