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classic by the researches of his father. Later on he mapped 

 portions of the Ancient Schists, Old Red Sandstone, and Drifts of 

 Eastern Sutherlandshire. He was author of the pictirresquely- 

 written book entitled "Landscape Geology," and of papers on 

 Eiver Action and Glacial Phenomena. Among the more important 

 of these papers the following may be mentioned : — " Tynedale 

 Escarpments : their Pre-glacial, Glacial, and Post-glacial Features," 

 1880; "Eiver Terracing: its methods and their results," 1884; 

 and "On Boulder-Glaciation," 1884." All who enjoyed Mr. Miller's 

 friendship will feel that they have lost a kind-hearted, though 

 keenly sensitive, friend. Strongly imbued with a love of Nature 

 and natural phenomena, he at the same time kept himself in touch 

 with the intellectual life of our time. He leaves a widow and a sou, 

 fifteen years of age, who is being educated at Fettes College. 



PROFESSOR LUDWIG RUTIMEYER, M.D. 



Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London. 

 Born 1825. Died November 26th, 1895. 



Herr Professor Dr. Ludwig Rutimeyer was born at Biglen in 

 the Commenthal, Canton Bern, in 1825. His father was a parish 

 clergyman, and afterwards Superintendent of the Orphanage at 

 Bonn. Ludwig was educated in the High School and Gymnasium 

 of that, town, and in 1842 went to the University of Berne, where 

 he studied theology, with the intention of following his father's 

 profession. Having developed a taste for comparative anatomy, no 

 doubt partly through the influence of his friend Peter Merian, the 

 Basel Palasontologist, he forsook his theological studies, and took up 

 medicine. Afterwards he visited many of the chief European cities, 

 and in Paris in 1850 he became acquainted with Elie de Beaumont, 

 and in 1852 he came to London, which he again visited in 1877, 

 In 1854 he took up academical teaching in the Berne University, 

 and in the following year accepted the newly established Chair of 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Basel, where he remained till 

 his death. 



His first work, " Vom Meere bis nach den Alpen," was published 

 on his return from his travels in 1854 ; after this he issued a long 

 series of Memoirs, characterized by the great accuracy and detail of 

 their observations, and the wide philosophical grasp and far-reaching 

 deductions made from them. 



Some of the more important of these memoirs are : — " Unter- 

 suchungen der Thierreste aus dem Pfahlbauten in der Schweiz," 

 18G0, in which he gives an account of the earlier races of some of 

 the domestic animals, and shows that while in the Lake-dwellings 

 of Stone Age the remains of wild animals predominate, showing 

 that the inhabitants lived mainly by the chase, in the later settle- 

 ments, made after the use of metal was discovered, the inhabitants 

 relied chiefly on various domesticated animals for food. 



Another important paper is " Beitrage zur Kentnisse der Fossilen 

 Pferde und zu einer Vergleichenden Odontographie der Hufthiere in 

 Allgememen," 1863 ; this may be regarded as laying the foundation 



