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GEOLOSY has lost a cultured worker by the death of Ernest Watson Vredenburg, who passed away on March 12, at the age of fifty-three. His death was probably hastened by the constant and now painfully verified foreboding that he might never be able to finish the great task which he had undertaken of revising the Tertiary palaeontology of the Indian region. We have had occasion at times to notice some of the numerous instalments which he has published during the past few years in the Records of the Geological Survey of India; they and other papers now in the press were intended to prepare the way for a comprehensive monograph which he hoped would justify his reason for differing from his colleagues on some questions of stratigraphical correlation; but the burden was too great for that hyper-sensitive, artistic, and retiring nature which tended to keep him apart from his colleagues, who nevertheless appreciated his deep learning, unrelenting industry, and tenacious adherence to independent views.
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Mr. E. W. Vredenburg. Nature 111, 505–506 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111505b0
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