Obituary — Baron NUn Adolf Erik Nordenskiold. 429 



RECENT DENUDATION IN NANT FFRANCON. 



Sir, — When examiniug the scene of the flood described in this 

 Magazine last February I couhl not satisfy myself as to whether 

 any channels had previously existed at the same place. My friend 

 Mr. Dakyns informed me, however, that destruction of culverts is 

 mentioned in a description of the damage done to the road. It is 

 clear, therefore, that former channels did exist, and that the whole 

 of the excavation cannot be ascribed to the flood of last August. 

 I think, though, that the old channels must have been small, for if 

 deposition be a measure of denudation, the recent excavating work 

 done must have been very great. 



I should like to take this opportunity to again suggest how 

 valuable some regular record would be of denudation observed at the 

 present time. Edward Greenley. 



OBITTJ.A.K,"Y-. 



BARON NILS ADOLF ERIK NORDENSKIOLD, 



Ph.D., For. Mebib. Geol. Soc. Lond,, Naturalist and Arctic 



Explorer. 



Born November 18, 1832. Died August 13, 1901. 



With deep regret, we have to record the sudden death near 

 Stockholm of Professor Baron Nordenskiold, the eminent Naturalist 

 and Arctic Explorer. Of a Swedish family long settled in Finland, 

 Nordenskiold was born in Helsingfors, the capital of that country, 

 his father. Dr. Nils Gustaf Nordenskiold, the eminent mineralogist, 

 who died in 1866,' being at that time Director of Mines for Finland. 

 Naturally, therefore, his ardent sympathies were always enlisted in 

 favour of the land of his birth. 



His family had long been eminent in science, and his inherent 

 tastes were fostered and developed by the suiToundings of his home 

 at Frugard, which contained extensive collections of minerals and 

 natural history specimens, and by his journeys with his father. On 

 entering the tJniversity of Helsingfors in 1849 he devoted himself 

 almost entirely to scientific studies, spending his vacations in 

 excursions to the rich mineral localities of Finland. In 1855 he 

 took his degree as licentiate, and was immediately appointed a raining 

 official of the Government. From this post, however, he was 

 dismissed in the same year for having indulged in pleasantries at 

 the expense of the Eussian Government at a private students' feast. 

 A temporary absence being deemed advisable, he continued his 

 studies at Berlin, but in 1857 returned to take his doctor's degree at 

 Helsingfors. As ill-luck would have it, however, a deputation from 

 the Swedish Universities was then entertained at Helsingfors, and the 

 young doctor in an after-dinner speech again showed his sympathies 



1 See Geol. Mag., 1866, Vol. Ill, p. 288. 



