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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 MARTIN TORELL (1828-1900)  ,
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Swedish geologist, was born in Varberg on the 5th of .
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June 1828 . He was educated at Lund for the medical profession, but became interested in zoological and
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geological studies, and being of
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independent means he devoted himself to science . He gave his attention first especially to the invertebrate
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fauna and the
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physical changes of
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pleistocene and
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recent times . He studied the glacial phenomena of
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Switzerland, Spitzbergen and Green-
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land, making two Arctic expeditions in
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company with A . E . Nordenskiold . In 1866 he became professor of zoology and 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
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interest and importance, were not large, but his influence in promoting a knowledge of geology in Sweden. was of
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great service . His Arctic experiences enabled him to interpret the method of origin of the drift deposits in
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northern
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Europe, and to show that they were largely of glacial or fluvio-glacial origin . In the
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English drifts he recognized many boulders of Scandinavian origin .

He died on the 11th of

September 1900 . His publications include: Bidrag till Spitzbergens molluskfauna (1859); and
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memoirs to accompany several sheets of the Geological Survey map of Sweden . Obituary with portrait, in Geol . Mag (May 1902), reproduced in abridged form from memoir by L . Holmstrom, in Geologiska foreningen i
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Stockholm's forhandlingar,
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xxiii .

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