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OBITTJAET. 



ALFRED ELIS TORNEBOHM, Ph.D. 

 Born October 16, 1838. Died April 21, 1911. 



We regret to record the death, at the age of 72, of Dr. A. E. 

 Tornebohni, who was Professor of Mineralogy at the Technical College 

 at Stockholm from 1878 to 1897, and Director of the Geological Survey 

 of Swedenfrom 1897 to 1906. He was elected a Foreign Correspondent 

 of the Geological Society of London in 1910. He was author of papers 

 on the Silurian and older rocks of Sweden, and on the Glacial 

 phenomena of Sweden, Norway, and North Germany. He regarded the 

 Swedish rock-basins as due to disturbances during the Glacial Period. 

 Dr. Tornebohm gave special attention to the iron-ores of Sweden, and 

 published nine maps of the principal districts where they occur 

 (1879-82). He also published a series of microscopical rock studies, 

 with descriptions of the rhomb-porphyry and many other rocks, his 

 later work, apart from his Geological Survey publications, being 

 mainly petrographical. He was author of Grunddragen af Sveriges 

 geologi, 1884, of which a third edition was published in 1901 ; and of 

 Die Petrographte des Portland Cements, 1897. 



MISCELLA1TEOTJS. 



A Paleontologist for the Geological Survey and Department of 

 Mines, New Zealand. 



It is now thirty-six years ago since Dr. (afterwards) Sir James 

 Hector came to England on a visit from New Zealand, where he was 

 at that time Director of the Geological Survey. He brought over 

 a number of fossils to the British Museum with the intention of 

 having them described, a task which the late Mr. Ptobert Etheridge, 

 E.R.S., undertook, but, alas ! did not accomplish owing to the pressure 

 of Survey work here. 



I remember describing and figuring a new fossil crab, Harpacto- 

 carcinus tumidus, from the passage-beds, Ototara Series, Woodpecker 

 Bay, South Island, New Zealand, to which Dr, Hector kindly added 

 a Note on the Geology with a section from the Alps to Brighton, New 

 Zealand, and a table of formations (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 

 London, vol. xxxii, pp. 51-6, pi. vii, 1876). I was since kindly 

 invited by the late Captain E. W. Hutton to contribute some 

 further notes upon New Zealand Crustacea, but regret to say they still 

 remain unwritten. 



It is with extreme pleasure that I learn the Geological Survey of 

 New Zealand have at length decided to appoint a palaeontologist. 

 This seems to be the outcome of representations made by the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, recom- 

 mended also by Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum ; 

 and Mr. P. G. Morgan, the new Director of the Geological Survey 

 (who has been appointed in succession to Dr. Bell), has no doubt 

 added weight to these recommendations. 



