See also:OTTO See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN See also:TORELL (1828-1900)
, See also:Swedish geologist, was See also:born in Varberg on the 5th of
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See also:June 1828
.
He was educated at See also:Lund for the medical profession, but became interested in zoological and See also:geological studies, and being of See also:independent means he devoted himself to See also:science
.
He gave his See also:attention first especially to the invertebrate See also:fauna and the See also:physical changes of See also:pleistocene and See also:recent times
.
He studied the glacial phenomena of See also:Switzerland, Spitzbergen and See also:Green-See also:land, making two See also:Arctic expeditions in See also:company with A
.
E
.
See also:Nordenskiold
.
In 1866 he became See also:professor of See also:zoology and See also:geology in the University at Lund, and in 1871 he was appointedchief of the Swedish Geological Survey
.
In the latter capacity he laboured until 1897
.
His published contributions, though of much See also:interest and importance, were not large, but his See also:influence in promoting a knowledge of geology in See also:Sweden. was of See also:great service
.
His Arctic experiences enabled him to interpret the method of origin of the See also:drift deposits in See also:northern See also:Europe, and to show that they were largely of glacial or fluvio-glacial origin
.
In the See also:English drifts he recognized many boulders of Scandinavian origin
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He died on the 11th of See also:September 1900
.
His publications include: Bidrag till Spitzbergens molluskfauna (1859); and See also:memoirs to accompany several sheets of the Geological Survey See also:map of Sweden
.
Obituary with portrait, in Geol
.
Mag (May 1902), reproduced in abridged See also:form from memoir by L
.
Holmstrom, in Geologiska foreningen i See also:Stockholm's forhandlingar, See also:xxiii
.
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