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OTTO MARTIN TORELL (1828-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 51 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OTTO See also:MARTIN See also:TORELL (1828-1900)  , See also:Swedish geologist, was See also:born in Varberg on the 5th of . 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 .

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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