Abstract
THE death of Percy Albert Wagner on Nov. 11, 1929, at the early age of forty-four years, removed from a larger sphere than that of South Africa one of the most prominent workers on the economic side of geology. Conjointly, the South African School of Mines, Freiberg and Heidelberg, contributed to the determining of his career. Much was accomplished in that relatively short life, principally among the platinum and diamond deposits of the Transvaal, and to a rather less extent in the geology and mineral resources of South-West Africa, fcr Dr. Wagner seldom strayed in his investigations beyond the southern section of the continent. His Memoirs on the “Fides-Stavoren Tinfields” (1921), on the “Iron Deposits of the Union of South Africa” (1928), and that exceptionally interesting work on “The Pretoria Salt-pan, a Soda Caldera” (1922), are typical examples of the thorough—and also the clear and systematic—manner in which the subject on hand was treated.
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P., J. Dr. P. A. Wagner. Nature 125, 787 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125787a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/125787a0