Obituary — Professor E. Renevier. 287 



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PROFESSOR EUGENE RENEVIER, 



For. Memb. Geol. Soo. Lond. 



BoRX 26th March, 1831. Died 4th May, 1906. 



With deep regret we record the death of Professor Eugene 

 Kenevier, son of a distinguished lawyer (Charles Kenevier). He 

 was born at Lausanne on the 26th March, 1831, and died, through 

 an accidental fall from a lift, on May 4th. Towards the age of 17 

 he began to follow the lectures at the polytechnical school of 

 Stuttgart, where he became intimate with Oppel. He seems to have 

 remained for about three years at Stuttgart. In 1851 we find him 

 doing work with Professor Pictet at Geneva, where he prepared his 

 " Memoire geologique sur la Perte du Rhone," published in 1854. 

 In the same year we find him working in Paris, under Professor 

 Hebert, on the Nummulitic deposits of the Alps. 



In 1856 he began his teaching at the Lausanne Academy, starting 

 with lectures on zoology ; and in 1858 he began the teaching of 

 geology. The present year was the fiftieth anniversary of his 

 academic teaching, and was to have been celebrated by his friends in 

 Lausanne with unusual honour. 



In 1893 Professor Renevier presided at the Meeting of the 

 Societe Helvetique des Sciences Naturelles, convened at Lausanne. 

 In 1894 he was President of the Sixth International Geological 

 Congress at Zurich. He took a very active part in all the Inter- 

 national Congresses ; and from the first he was Member of the 

 Commission for the Unification of Nomenclature. 



He was the founder and, from the commencement, President of 

 the Swiss Geological Society. 



For the above particulars we are much indebted to the courtesy 

 of Professor Maurice Lugeon, Professor of Geology in the University 

 of Lausanne, Switzerland. C. I. F. M. 



The following is a list of the principal publications of Professor 

 Renevier (there are about 100 in all) : — 



Memoire geologique sur la Perte du Ehone (Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helv. Sc. Nat., 



Tol. xiv, 1854). 

 Description des fossiles du Nummulitique superieur de Gap, Diablerets, etc. 



(eu collab. avec Prof. Hebert) (Bull. Soc. stat. Isere, iii, et Bull. Geol. 



Fr., ser. ii, xi, 1854). 

 Geological and Palfcontological Notes on the Alps of Vaud: — 



(1) Infralias et zOne a Avieiila contorta (Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., viii, 1864). 



(2) Massif de I'Oldenhorn et Col de Pillon (Bull, id., viii, 1865). 



(3) Environs de Cheville (id., 1866). 



(4) (Avec F. J. Pictet) Cephalopodes de Cheville (id., 1866). 



(5) Complement de la Faune de Cheville (id., 1868). 



(6) Gisements fossiliferes houiOers du Bas Valais (id., 1879). 

 Tableaux des terrains sedimentaires (Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat., xiii, 1874). 

 Sti-ucture geologique du Massif du Simplon (id., xv, 1878). 



Eapport au Congres Geol. International de Bologna sur I'unification des precedes 

 graphiques (C.R. Congr. Bologna, 1881). 



