432 Obituary — Professor S. A. B. Limdgren. 



examination for the degree of "Kandidat" in 1864, and proceeded 

 to the iinal degree of Doctor in Philosophy in the following year. 

 The treatise that he wrote for this occasion was on a geological 

 subject, namely, " A contribution to the knowledge of the geological 

 relations of the Saltholm Limestone." 



The following September Lundgren accompanied Professor E. 

 Hebert on a geological tour in the Scanian Mesozoic districts. It 

 was in this trip that he made his first acquaintance with the district 

 whose geology was to be the subject of his most important work. 



From that time he appears to have turned his attention to geology 

 entirely, and in June, 1867, was appointed "decent " in Palgeontolog}'. 

 At this time the Professorship of Zoology at Lund was taken 

 to include that of geology, and was held by Professor Otto Torell, 

 the present chief of the Swedish Geological Survey. When 

 Professor Torell vacated the Chair of Zoology in 1880 the two 

 professorships were separated, and Lundgren was appointed first 

 Geological Professor in the University of Lund. Previous to 

 receiving this appointment he had made several journeys abroad, 

 and had become thoroughly acquainted with the Mesozoic Geology 

 of "Western Europe. Of Lundgren's activity as a teacher in the 

 University of Lund little need be said ; the very existence of 

 the Geological Institute will remain as a lasting memorial of his 

 imtiring zeal and devotion to the cause of his favourite science. 



As a lecturer he seems to have had a wonderful power of 

 interesting his audience in his subject, partly, no doubt, because 

 he could speak of most important matters from personal observation. 



His best known geological works are those which treat of the 

 Mesozoic Eocks of Scania, and it must not be forgotten that it is to 

 Lundgren that we are indebted for the working out of the highest 

 Cretaceous (Danian and Senonian) beds of the South of Sweden, and 

 he also showed the true relation of the Saltholm Limestone to the 

 Eaxoe Limestone. Another great work of his was published in 1885 

 " On the Brachiopoda of the Swedish Chalk." Among other papers 

 •was "A treatise on the Mollusca in the older Swedish Mesozoic 

 Deposits," published in 1881, and the third part of the well-known 

 " List of the Fossil Faunas of Sweden." This part dealt with the 

 fauna of the Swedish Mesozoic deposits, and for it Lundgren was 

 mainly responsible. He published two papers on the Palaeontology 

 of Spitzbergen, one in 1883, the other in 1887 ; the material for 

 these was supplied by Nathorst and De Geer, who had collected it 

 in the expedition of 1882. Lundgren's latest geological work was 

 published in 1895, " On some Jurassic Fossils from Cape Stewart in 

 Eastern Greenland." These were collected in the Danish Expedi- 

 tion of 1891-2. 



In the spring of 1895 his health began to give way, although it is 

 probable that he had for some time pi'eviously been threatened 

 with the disease to which he finally succumbed. He died on the 

 night of January 7 in the present year. G. L. E. (Translator). 



(For these facts I am greatly indebted to the obituary notice written 

 by Dr. Tornquist for the Geological Society of Sweden. — G. L. E.) 



