Dr. H. M. Cadell

Abstract

THE sudden death of Dr. H. M. Cadell on April 10 at the age of seventy-three years has deprived Edinburgh and its neighbourhood of a distinguished scientific worker and of one who played a conspicuous and most useful part in the life of the community. Born in 1860, he was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at Clausthal Royal Mining Academy, Germany. He was one of the first band of students who studied under Archibald Geikie, and at the age of twenty-three years he became a member of H.M. Geological Survey. He always regarded it as a privilege that he was sent to the field as a junior member of the staff under Peach and Home in the survey of the north-west Highlands,. and an account of his laboratory experiments illustrating the mode of production of the complicated tectonics of that region is included in their classic memoir. On succeeding to the family estate in 1888 he retired from the Survey after only five years' service, but his interest in geology and geography continued unabated, and he was the author of a long series of geological and geographical papers, many of which were the results of observations made during his frequent and extensive travels.