Ohitnanj — Guntaf Lhuhtrbm. 333 



Further north, in Glenfalloch, there is a more extensive area of 

 similar brecciated schist, where, however, as far as I remember, no 

 igneous rocks are to be seen. 



The researches of Lapworth, Peach, and Home in the Highlands, 

 of Lamplugh in the Isle of Man, and of others elsewhei'e, have 

 taught us that solid rocks have been broken up or ground into 

 powder by mechanical violence on a far larger and more extended 

 scale than had been previously dreamed of. 



If I am right in my conjecture as to the origin of the breccias 

 mentioned above, they are instances of the same sort of thing. 



June 4, 1901. J- R- DakynS. 



P.S. — I am reminded by my friend, Mr, C. T. Clough, that the 

 breccias may be due to explosions. They are mentioned by Sir 

 Archibald Geikie in his work on " Ancient British Volcanoes," but 

 I have not the book at hand to refer to. — J. R. D. 



OBITTJ.A.12,'2". 



GUSTAF LINDSTROM. 

 (WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE XIII.) 



Born at Wisby, Aug. 27, 1829. Died at Stockholm, May 16, 1901. 



How vividly comes to one's mind that little room looking into the 

 courtyard of the Riksmuseum at Stockholm, with its plain deal 

 floor, deal tables and writing-desk, and the rough deal shelves for 

 books covering three of its walls, the only decoration a few portraits 

 (as of Angelin and Darwin), the only sign of comfort an old horse- 

 hair sofa. Here for twenty-five years, day after day, Gustaf 

 Lindstrom pursued his quiet labours on that wonderful collection 

 stored in the adjoining room, a collection rich chiefly in the fossils 

 of Silurian Gotland amassed by the successive exertions of Hisinger, 

 Angelin, and Lindstrom himself. At one of the windows in that 

 room, overmuch darkened though it was by the tall houses opposite, 

 one would see G. Liljevall developing some rare fossil or making 

 those exquisite drawings that illustrated Lindstrom's papers ; at 

 another window the attendant boy, usually a Gustaf too, made 

 cardboard trays or sorted out new accessions ; while a third window 

 was generally occupied by some foreign paleontologist who had 

 journeyed far to study the famous collection. ]\Iany are there of 

 these who to-day mourn Lindstrom, not merely as a leader gone from 

 among them, but as an ever attentive host, and as a dear friend. 



Born among the mediaeval ruins of Wisby, in whose cliffs and on 

 whose strand fossils are to be had for the mere taking, the meditative 

 and retiring youth could not fail to have his interest aroused by the 

 relics of the past. He might have been a great archeeologist, in fact 

 his academic thesis was on the history of his native island in Queen 

 Christina's reign, and in after years he published two thick volumes 

 on the Middle Ages in Gotland ; but the direct incentive topaleonto- 

 logical studies was early furnished. " In 1845," he once wrote, 

 " when I was quite a boy, much wondering at the marvellous things 

 I saw enclosed in the limestone rocks of my native island of Gotland, 



