Abstract
IT was with deep regret that English geologists learned that Prof. Marcel Bertrand, professor of geolosry at the French National School of Mines, died n Wednesday, February 13. Born in Paris on July 2, 1847, a member of a family of great mathematicians, he inherited a natural gift for the exatt sciences, and especially for geometry, which enabled him to enter into l'Ecole Polytechnique in 1867. In 1869, owing to his brilliance “as a student, he, was selected by the French Government as mining engineer. For three years he attended the courses of Elie de Beaumont and others at the School of Mines. This teaching decided the direction of his life's work along the traditional lines of the school of which he was in turn a student, an instructor, and one of the most distinguished professors from the year 1886.
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