384 Obituary — George Sweet. 



Europe, has naturally led Professor Daly to a viifferent conclusion. 

 Why it alone should be undeformed, lying as it does among the 

 highly warped shorelines of North America, is a mystery which the 

 tracing of it into other areas may ultimately solve. Its parallelism 

 to the modern shore is the more puzzling, as Gilbert seems to have 

 proved that the warping of the Great Lakes Region is, like that 

 of Scandinavia, still progressing. As regards the very widely 

 distributed raised shorelines and reefs of tropical seas, the writer 

 has long thought that they are more probably the equivalent of 

 the pre-Glacial shoreline of Euroj^e than of any of the later raised 

 beaches. Maufe was inclined to hold the same view when he was 

 working on the raised reef at Mombasa. If this is the case, the con- 

 clusion must be that the ocean, after the Glacial oscillations, has 

 returned to a level a little lower than that of pre-Glacial times. 



W. B. Wright. 

 Dublin. 

 Jime 15, 1920. 



[We regret that this letter was received too late for insertion in 

 the July number. — Ed. Geol. Mag.] 



THE BOURNEMOUTH CLIFFS. 



Sir, — I have no desire to prolong this discussion, but as I have 

 been asked where photographs of the clifEs, as they appeared about 

 thirty years ago, may be seen, I should like to refer those who are 

 interested to one illustrating an article on " Scientific Aspects of 

 Bournemouth ", which appeared in Research of December 2, 1889. 



Yours faithfully, 



C. Carus-Wilson. 



OBITUARY. 



GEORGE SWEET, F.G.S. 

 Born 1844. Died 1920. 



Mr. George Sweet, who recently died at the age of 76, "was born 

 at Salisbury, England, but spent most of his life as a manufacturer 

 of pottery near Melbourne, Australia. He was a keen geologist, 

 and was second in command of the second Funafuti expedition 

 under Professor Edge worth David. He also made extensive 

 collections of fossils from the Carboniferous and Cretaceous strata 

 of Queensland, and investigated the Permo-Carboniferous glacial 

 beds of Bacchus Marsh. In 1905 he was President of the Royal 

 Society of Victoria. 



