Obituary — Sherwin Kelly

A member of the British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines and the first person to be named a “Fellow of the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce,” Sherwin Kelly died recently. He was 99.

A native of New Mexico, Kelly graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in mining engineering. Between 1919 and 1921, he earned a fellowship in geology and mineralogy at Sorbonne in Paris. He also translated the works of Schlumberger on electrical prospecting and imported the revolutionary idea to North America.

Kelly taught at the Universities of Kansas and Toronto, having completed his graduate studies at the latter. The next 25 years were spent as a consultant in electrical prospecting for metallic orebodies in bedrock. He moved to Merritt, B.C., in 1958.