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DR. W. C. BR0GGER, professor emeritus of mineralogy and geology of the University of Oslo, died on February 17, at the age of eighty-eight. Born at Oslo (Kristiania) in 1851, Brogger started his scientific career as a zoologist, but soon, through the inspiring influence of Th. Kjerulf, professor of mineralogy and geology, entered upon the study of the two subjects in which he was to accomplish so much. Before he was thirty years old, he received a call to Stockholm as professor, having already to his credit a large number of important papers on mineralogy, general geology and palaeontology. A particularly valuable publication of his early years is his treatise on “Die silurischen Etagen 2 und 3 im Kristianiagebeit, etc.” (1882), where besides describing the stratigraphy and fossils of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician, he gave a preliminary, yet very comprehensive, survey of the igneous rocks of the district, a field of research which was to become the central one of his life. A most important geological paper from the Stockholm period is “Ueber die Bildungsgeschichte des Kristianiafjords”, where the block-fault structure, with breccia and other accompanying phenomena, was demonstrated with exceptional clearness.
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HOLTEDAHL, O. Prof. W. C. Brogger, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 145, 652 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145652a0
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