Obituaries

Abstract

THOMAS OWEN BOSWORTH, who died in London on Jan. 18 last, was born at Spratton, Northamptonshire, on Mar. 28, 1882. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was on the staff of the Geological Survey of Scotland in the years 1908 and 1909. The remainder of his life was mainly spent abroad as an oilfield geologist. In this capacity he travelled extensively in America, ranging from Peru to within the Arctic circle. His published works include “The Keuper Marls around Charnwood” (Leicester, 1912), “Geology of the Mid Continent Oilfields, Kansas, Oklahoma, and North Texas” (New York, 1920), “Geology of the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods in the North-West Part of Peru” (London, 1922), and several papers in the Geological Magazine. In the work on Peru, Bos-worth gives a fascinating account of the later geological history of the region, and his description of the present conditions and processes in the desert is full of interest to both geologists and geographers. By his death at the early age of forty-six years, geology has lost a very able investigator.