1921-22.] 
Obituaries. 
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Nathoest, Alfred Gabriel, was born in 1850 at Waderbrunn, was 
educated at Malmd, and at the Universities of Lund and Upsala. The 
following degrees were conferred on him during his career ; — Ph.D. (Lund), 
1874; Hon. Ph.D. (Greifs.), 1906 (Christiania, 1911); Hon. Sc.D. (Cantab.), 
1907 ; and Hon. LL.D. (8t Andrews), 1911. He was a Member of the 
Academies of Science of Christiania, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, and St 
Petersburg; a Foreign Member of the Linnean and Geological Societies, 
London; a Corresponding Member of the Geological Societies of Edinburgh 
and Glasgow and the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh ; and received 
many awards for distinguished work. He conducted explorations 
in Spitsbergen, 1870 and 1882; in Greenland, 1883; Bear Island, Spits- 
bergen, and King Charles Land, 1898; and E. Greenland, 1899. Professor 
Nathorst’s published works include : — History of the Earth, Geology of 
Sweden, Tivo Summers in Arctic Regions, Geology of Bear Island, 
Spitsbergen, and King Charles Land, Swedenborg as Geologist, and 
Linnceus as Geologist. He also contributed over three hundred papers to 
various journals on Geology, Botany, Paleobotany, Geography, etc. 
Professor Nathorst was elected a Foreign Honorary Fellow of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh in June 1920, and died at Stockholm on 20th 
January 1921, aged 70 years. 
Norris, Richard Hill, M.D., L.R.C.S. (Edin.), and L.M., was a J.P. of 
County Warwick and Birmingham City, a member of the British Medical 
Association, and Assistant Demonstrator in Physiology in Queen’s College, 
Birmingham, from 1874-75. He w'as elected a Fellow of this Society 
in 1878. 
Walker, James, C.A., LL.D., Lord Rector’s Assessor of the University 
of Edinburgh, was born in Edinburgh in 1864. He was educated at 
George Watson’s College, the Edinburgh Collegiate School, and continued 
his education at Leipzig and Lausanne. He served his apprenticeship 
with the late firm of Messrs Dali & Miller, C.A., and was admitted a 
Member of the Edinburgh C.A. Society in 1886. Dr Walker had also 
technical training at the University and Heriot Watt College, which stood 
him in good stead in capacities connected with the development of several 
businesses of an engineering nature — in particular the Scottish Central 
Electric Power Co. In the C.A. Society he took a prominent part, serving 
on the Council of the Edinburgh Society from 1911-12 to 1914-15. One 
of the pioneers of the institution of the Edinburgh C.A. Students’ Society 
in 1886, he was President for two terms. 
