lxxii PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 896,. 



Decapod Crustaceans of the Oxford Clay,' 1 and ' On Fossil Isopods, 

 with a Description of a New Species/ 2 



Mr. Carter was recognized as an authority on the fossil Podo- 

 phthalmatous Crustacea, and had for some time been engaged in 

 collecting materials for a monograph on that group ; he has left 

 his manuscript in an advanced state. He retained his interest in 

 his pursuits almost till the last, and was engaged in his scientific 

 work to within a few weeks of his death. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society in 1877. He served on the Councils of 

 the Geological and Palaeontographical Societies for some years, 

 and was a local secretary of the latter society. 



Mr. Carter presented his collection of Cambridge fossils to the 

 "Woodwax dian Museum some years before his death. 



SvEff Loven, the eminent Swedish biologist, died at Stockholm, 

 September 3rd, 1895. He was born in the same city on January 

 6th, 1809 ; his father was a wealthy merchant, who provided his 

 son with an excellent education, the higher stages of which were 

 carried on partly in the University of Upsala, and subsequently in 

 that of Lund, where Loven, in 1829, took the degree of Doctor of 

 Philosophy. In the following year he studied zoology at Berlin 

 under such teachers as Ehrenberg and Rudolphi, and then returned 

 to Lund as Docent in Zoology. Several succeeding years were 

 almost exclusively spent in studying the marine fauna, and more 

 particularly the mollusca, of the western coasts of Sweden, and the 

 field of his investigations was afterwards extended to the shores of 

 the northern part of Norway and Finmark. 



In 1837 Loven sailed to Spitzbergen and inaugurated the first of 

 the Swedish scientific expeditions to that island. Though his 

 observations were mainly directed to the marine fauna of this 

 region, the geological phenomena did not escape his observation, 

 and he was the first to discover the Carboniferous strata of the 

 island. He also obtained fossils from newer rocks, which proved to 

 be in part identical with those from the Jurassic beds of Petchora 

 Land, described by Keyserling, and thus established the existence 

 of Jurassic deposits in Spitzbergen. 



In 1839 Loven supplemented his study of the molluscan fauna 

 of the Arctic regions by visits to the Museums of London, Paris, 

 and the principal towns of Germany. He thus fitted himself for 

 the position of Intendant or Keeper of the Lower Invertebrata in 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlii. (1886) p. 542, pi. xvi. 

 3 Geol. Mag. 1889, p. 193, pi. vi. figs. 1-7. 



