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:

• OTTO MARTIN TORELL (1828-1900)

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