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Barlow, geographer and chief-draughtsman to the Geological Survey, 

 makes another gap in the ranks of the associates of the first Director, 

 inasmuch as the subject of this notice aided his father, the late Mr. 

 Robert Barlow, in the compilation of the beautiful maps and sections 

 in the Atlas to accompany the general report for 1863, and to illustrate 

 the labor of Sir William Logan and his associates in the fust twenty 

 years of the life of the survey ; a monument to their memory which will 

 not soon perish, and for which medals were awarded at the first Paris 

 and London Exhibitions. 



His death is a loss to the profession generally, and his familiar face 

 will be missed by his many friends and especially by his colleagues, with 

 whom he was on terms of the kindliest intimacy, and who all bear willing 

 testimony to his high sense of honour and his devotion to duty. He 

 leaves with them pleasant memories of his unfailing humour, generous, 

 considerate forbearance and friendly counsel and assistance. 



Mr. Barlow joined the Survey in November 1856, and had thus 

 been more than thirty-seven years employed as surveyor, explorer and 

 draughtsman. During the first years of his service he made important 

 researches in conjunction with the late Mr. James Richardson, along 

 the south shore of the St. Lawrence, and owing to his skill and pains- 

 taking accuracy was engaged to work up the field-notes of Sir William 

 Logan. 



In 1870 he was employed in the Springhill coal-field in Nova 

 Scotia. By digging and boring by hand along the outcrop of the coal- 

 seams he ascertained their extension north and south so well, that the 

 workings tor the last fifteen years at that colliery have not passed beyond 

 the ground proved by him. He was withdrawn from Nova Scotia in 

 1878, and after he succeeded his father as chief draughtsman, the duties 

 of that office occupied most of his time, although he made surveys of 

 certain mining districts in the valley of the Ottawa River. 



He also made original surveys of the north and south shores of the 

 Ottawa River for a radius of some twenty miles, with a view to prepar 

 ing a complete geological map of Ottawa and its environs, to form the 

 first of a series of geological maps of the larger cities and centres of 

 Canada. 



Mr. Harlow leaves a widow, daughter of John Crichton Esq., 



