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for his enthusiasm and the ready courtesy with which he imparted 

 his great store of experience. In Germany he showed that the 

 Drift was mainly of glacial or fluvio-glacial origin, not marine, as 

 had been thought. To England he made several visits, and pointed 

 out how large a proportion of our East-coast Drift was probably 

 of Scandinavian origin. He recognized various erratics found in 

 Norfolk and Yorkshire as belonging to rocks peculiar to scattered 

 islands in the Baltic, or to the neighbourhood of Christiania. Torell 

 was not a ready writer, and his publications scarcely represent the 

 work that he accomplished. This is to be measured rather by 

 the commanding position which Scandinavia has taken in Arctic 

 Exploration and in Glacial Geology. [C. R.] 



John Anstie, B.A., was an Associate Member of the Institute 

 of Civil Engineers, and is best known to geologists by his work 

 on *The Coalfields of Gloucestershire & Somersetshire, & their 

 Resources/ 1873. He gained his knowledge of these districts while 

 working under the direction of Prestwich, who, as one of the 

 members of the Royal Coal Commission, had been requested to report 

 on the quantities of coal, wrought and un wrought, in the coalfields. 

 Mr. Anstie prepared materials for some of the vertical and hori- 

 zontal sections published by the Geological Survey, in illustration of 

 the same coalfields. 



He died on January 8th, 1900. [H. B. W.] 



H. KiRBY Atkinson, who joined the Society in 1886, was 

 associated with the ' Colliery Guardian ' for more than forty years, 

 and had been for twenty-four years its Editor. He died on March 

 15th, 1900, aged 83. 



George Clementson Greenwell, M.Inst.C.E., became a Fellow 

 of this Society in 1858. He was distinguished as a mining engi- 

 neer, and his ' Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering,' of which 

 the first edition was published in 1855, has always been regarded 

 as a* standard work. 



Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on July 25th, 1821, he was 

 educated partly in that city, and partly at the University of 

 Edinburgh. In 1844 he commenced work among the collieries in 

 County Durham, and in 1853 was appointed sole manager of the 

 Countess Waldegrave's collieries at Radstock. Here he made a 

 particular study of the Somerset Coal-Measures, concerning which 



