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In October, 1865, he left England for Montreal, which was 

 thenceforth his home, and where his valuable collection, pre 

 sented by him to McGill University, is suitably housed in the 

 Peter Redpath Museum of that institution. During the period of 

 his activity in Montreal he devoted himself largely to a mono 

 graphic study of the Chitonidce, with results of the utmost im 

 portance to their proper classification, but of which only a concise 

 abstract has yet been published, though a large mass of MSS. 

 had been prepared at the time of his death. 



Dr. Carpenter received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

 from the New York State University in 1860. He was a man of 

 slight frame, below the middle height, and of striking personal 

 appearance. He was brimful of enthusiasm not only in his 

 studies, but in all that related to good health, morals, and practi 

 cal religion. His audacity in confronting and attacking abuses 

 was unparalleled, and, like most reformers, he met with much op 

 position and made many active opponents. But the rich charity 

 of his nature, his single-minded devotion to what he believed to 

 be right, and his disregard of his personal interests in all that 

 concerned the promotion of reforms, made even the bitterest op 

 ponents concede him elements of character of which any man or 

 community might be justly proud.* 



THOMAS BLAND. 



Thomas Bland, one of our best known naturalists, was born 

 October 4, 1809, in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. His 

 father was a physician and his mother related to Shepard, the 

 naturalist. He was educated at the famous Charter-House school, 

 London, and was a classmate of Thackeray. Subsequently he 

 studied and practiced law. He went to Barbados, West Indies, 



* An excellent memoir of Dr. P. P. Carpenter, accompanied by a good 

 portrait, was prepared by his brother, the Rev. Russell Lant Carpenter, 

 and published by C. Kegan Paul & Co.. London, in 1880. 



