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three consecutive years, and I'eceived figures for 1906, 1907, and 1908, 

 as follows : — 



1906. 1907. 1908. 



Inches. Inches. Inches. 



January . . . 3-12 2-57 2-27 



February . . .4-19 1-99 3-62 



March .... 4-63 3-53 3-48 



April .... 6-65 rr55 5-53 



6-61 7-30 4-23 



. 6-71 6-57 3-49 



6-42 G-32 4-22 



. 10-82 4-92 9-12 



. 5-97 5-65 10-75 



. 10-60 9-32 6-69 



. 3-81 8-35 6-86 



. 11-03 9-28 4-66 



I think it will puzzle anyone to find evidence in the above for 

 alternating and perfectly distinct wet and dry seasons. Mr. Kilroc 

 doubts the necessity of tropical conditions for the formation of laterite, 

 and as there is no reason whatever for supposing that the Malacca 

 laterite was formed under conditions of rainfall differing from those 

 that obtain now, it appears that alternating wet and dry seasons 

 are not necessary either. J. B. Sckivenok. 



Geological Department, Kuala Lumpur, 



Batu Gajah, Federated Malay States. 

 October, 1909. 



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CARL GOTTSCHE, Ph.D. 



Born 1855. Died October 11, 1909. 



We regret to record the death of Professor Dr. Carl Gottsche, Director 

 of the Mineralogical-Geological Institute at Hamburg. Born at 

 Altona in Schleswig-Holstein, he early gave attention to geology, and 

 in 1875 described a boulder of sandy limestone found at Eimsbiittel 

 near Hamburg, which contained Paludma lenta, Planorhis euomphalus, 

 and Unio Solanderi, characteristic of the Headon Beds. In 1878 he 

 published papers on the Miocene Mollusca of Reinbeck, and on some 

 Jurassic fossils from the Argentine Cordilleras ; and in 1883 he issued 

 a little work, Die sedimentare Geschiebe der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 

 which was published at Yokohama. At that date Dr. Gottsche was 

 engaged in a geological study of Korea, and in addition to other papers 

 on the results of his work, he communicated to the Berlin Academy in 

 1886 a Geological Sketch of Korea, with the first geological map that 

 had been made of the country.^ Dr. Gottsche attended the London 

 meeting of the International Geological Congress in 1888, and was also 

 present at the British Association meeting at Bath in the same year. 

 Those who attended some of the geological excursions in the west 

 country will remember his keen interest and buoyant spirits in the 

 field ; and all will lament his decease at the age of 54. H. B. "W". 



1 Dr. Gottsche obtained a recent specimen of Fleiirotomaria Beijrichii at Enoshima, 

 Japan, described by H. Woodward, Geol. Mag., 1885, pp. 433-9, PI. XI, Fig. 1. 



