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THE death is announced of PROF. A. A. INOSTRANSEFF, who was for many years professor of geology in the University of Petrograd. Inostranseff was born in 1843, and began his geological researches in Germany, where he was led to devote special attention to petrology. His first paper, on the microscopic structure of some Vesuvian lava, was published at Halle in 1872. On his return to Russia he made important observations on the opaque minerals in crystalline rocks and on the metamorphic rocks of the Government of Olenez. He also did much geological surveying in the Caucasus in connection with projected railways. His interests gradually widened, and in 1882 he published a volume (unfortunately in the Russian language) on man in the Stone Age round Lake Ladoga. He had much successes a teacher, and among other researches which he encouraged may be particularly mentioned those of his pupil, the late Prof. Amalitsky, on the Permian deposits of northern Russia. The Permian theriodont reptile Inostransevia commemorates his name.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 525 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105525b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105525b0