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 ti .IUHAN Kl

. ARCT. Exr'i FRMI

\\'l' know now that llII‘N‘ hopes were not to he realised. Even as

- rl\ as the winter ol thtt—ttfi he was attacked lt_\' the malady which alter a long illness. at length on the tirsl of November. 19 '

reused The utmost that he had lwvn ahle to pnhlish of his geological investigations during the

his death. cum was then only 31 years nl age. mpmlilion was a preliminary ottrounl‘ giung the main leatures ol the This has heeu ol incalculable value in HIV suhsetpu-nt [HR-partition of special works dealing with the material.

geology oi the region explored

The death ol .tZHEI so soon alter the return ot the expedition was naturally a great misfortune to the scientiﬁc work connected with the He was not only lht- editor of the st-ientilir publications ol the expedition. hot with

large geologiral rolleclions which were brought home.

his splendid memory he possessed a store oi observations which were naturally ol the utmost importance to those connected with the work. thin a small amount ol this material can be gleaned from his diaries. and very mot-h is therefore lust tor ever. As will he understood. his death t'?.~||llt’(l in many dillirulties and delays and it is not until to-day. i. o. 1'.) years after the return of the expedition, that nearly the whole of the work is romph-ted. Pea Stalin's preliminary arcount at his geo-

logiral investigations, and the seri s of geological works that will appear

in the report of the expedition on the bass of his geological (‘OlletrtiOI ‘. uill assure him a prominent position amongst geologi al investigators ol the ;\t‘clit‘ regions amt like his collections. will endure as a lasting mnmunt-nt to a gifted and noble scientitic investigator. whose untimely

dv-nth was a great loss to A\

rwogian srienro.

Stilt: s large and liealtlllul Silurian and llt‘VUllltlll rullertiotls lI'OIn tinow Fiord m the most complete and ratuahle that any one expedition in these art-tir regions has secured. Stand was esperialty interested in Ito- fossil plants and ﬁshes \\'l|lt'll lw htlt‘t't‘tftlt‘tl in dist-orering in the ~:|||tl~llttt(' sprit-s at lllr extruue end of House l"iortl. The work in con- Iim'lltlu with the tossil plants was t-tlll'tblrtl to l‘rol'cssor A. G. NA'rnoas'r. whose hook ttltlwltl'l’ll as early as llltI-L aml was thus Ill» tirsl puhli- ,llllt‘

'l‘nun \m at l':lllltlt|ll‘;.{ll. hut unlorlnnalely that eminent Irhthyolugist,

utlion ol llll‘ sriz-ntilit' l'rlml'l. fossil. ies were sent to It. ll.

nu :n-rnnnt ot ill-health during his latrry nus, was it alde to undertake

lln- unl'k. “hit-h was art-ordineg entrusted to tlir present \\ 'tter.

' l' illnnnmy ltvport t I the lionl “Inset-rations, l‘JtJJJ [Allp‘ttlix In It. Srunnu'l':

m Luna". .um “uptight-VI a.. [loyal tiengmpliil'nl . cty).