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at the time at which it was written, it will possess great historical 

 value, and its appearance in the ' Memoires de TAcademie ' will be 

 welcomed by the geologists of every country. It is being edited 

 by its author's devoted friend 'SL. Emmanuel de Margerie, and 

 Prof. Termier has contributed a genial and appreciative preface. 



Geologists in this country will remember that in 1892 Bertrand 

 paid a visit to the Xorth-West of Scotland for the purpose of 

 examining, under the guidance of the of&cers of the Geological 

 Survey, the tectonic structure of that region, which afforded so many 

 parallels to the phenomena observed by him in France, and that he 

 published an interesting account of what he saw in Sutherland and 

 Eoss.^ In the following year he prepared a paper on the connec- 

 tion of the Coal-!Measure basins of the Xorth of France and the 

 Xorth of England.^ He was elected a Foreign Correspondent of 

 this Society in 1893, and a Foreign Member in 1899. 



The last years of this brilliant worker were years of sadness and 

 gloom. The sudden tragic death of a daughter deeply affected him, 

 and he gradually sank into a state of increasingly feeble health, from 

 which at last death released him on February 13th, 1907. 



Alarcel Bertrand's gentle and kindly nature and the great charm 

 of his manner made him a delightful companion and a valued friend. 

 His enthusiasm for his subject and his remarkable power of lucid 

 exposition gained for him the respect and regard of his colleagues on 

 the Survey and of his devoted pupils in the School of Mines. His 

 originality and breadth of view, his grasp of the problems with 

 which he had to grapple, and the new light which he threw on 

 the fascinating questions of mountain-building placed him in the 

 forefront of the geologists of his day. We mourn in him the loss 

 of one of the masters of tectonic geology, who has left the mark 

 of his genius deeply impressed on the history of that department of 

 our science. 



Another distinguished geologist and devoted student of the Alps 

 has been removed from our ranks by the death of Johaxx August 

 EDiiu>"D Mojsisovics, Edler von Mojsvar. Belonging to an old 

 Hungarian family, he was born on October 18th, 1839, in Vienna, 

 where his father was an eminent medical man. After passing 



^ ' Les Montagnes de I'Ecosse ' EeTue Generale des Sciences Pures & 

 AppHquees, Dec. loth, 1892; and Geol. Mag. 1893, p. 118. 



2 Ann. des Mines, ser. 9, vol. iii (1893) p. 5 & vol. v (1894) p. 569. An abridged 

 reprint of this essay appeared in the Trans. Fed. Inst. Mining Engin. vol. v 

 (1892-93) p. 106. 



