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The death of our Foreign Member, Svex Leonhard Tornquist, 

 deprives our science of one who contributed largely to the know- 

 ledge of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of his native country, especially, 

 in the provinces of J)alecarlia and Scania. 



He was born on March 6th, 1840, at Uddevalla, and completed 

 his education at Lund University, and at the same time undertook 

 research -work in tlie neighbourhood of that L^niversitA', as the 

 result of which he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 186-3. Shortly 

 afterwards he obtained the post of Lektor in a school at Gefle, 

 and while there carried on most of his work in the tract of Lower 

 Palaeozoic rocks around Lake Siljan. A number of papers were 

 written by him dealing with the stratigraphy^ of these very com- 

 plex deposits, and he also added largely to the elucidation of their 

 palaeontology. Especially noticeable are his contributions to our 

 , knowledge of the fauna of the Leptoena Limestone, the strati- 

 graphical position of v»diich was for many years undetermined. 

 While engaged in the study of the Dalecarlian deposits, he travelled 

 widely in his own country and elsewhere, and contributed papers 

 on Ostergothia and Scania, also on the Yogtland, Thuringia, and 

 Great Britain. 



As a result of his visit to this country in 1878, he made a 

 comparison of the ancient rocks of Sweden with those of Great 

 Britain, which 'svas published in Stockholm in the following year. 

 The study of graptolites was essential to the unravelling of the 

 Dalecarlian deposits, and he possessed a wide knowledge of these 

 organisms. In 1882 he left Gefle for Lund, and thereafter 

 devoted especial attention to the graptolites, issuing from time 

 to time a series of luminous papers and memoirs, which placed 

 him in the first rank as a student of the group, as regards both 

 their structure and their stratigraphical importance. He received 

 the title of Professor in 1002. He resigned his position as a 

 teacher in 1905, but continued his researches, and his last paper 

 was published a short time before his death on September 6th, 

 1920. He was elected a Foreign Corresjjondent of our Society 

 in 1893, and a Foreign Member in 1900. 



He was singularly modest, and ever thoughtful for others. His 

 friends owe much to him. No trouble was too great for him, when 

 showing other geologists over his ground, and thei'e are many in 

 this country, as elsewhere, who have reaped stores of knowledge 

 from personal acquaintance with him, and who will ever remember 

 his kindliness and courtes}^ [J. E. M.] 



