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Frederick William Sardeson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Post-graduate in ( feology. 



Now engaged in paleozoic paleontology. 

 Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, Ottawa, Canada. Paleontologisl and Assistanl 



Director of the Geologi* 1 Survey of Canada. Working on Canadian paleon- 



toloj 



A memorial of T. Sterry Hunt, in the absence of the author, was 

 read by < '. I!. Van I [ise. 



MEMORIAL OF THOMAS STERRY IM VI 

 l: , RAPHAEL PUMPELLY 



Thomas St< rry Hunt was !>'>ni in Norwich, Connecticut, September 5, 

 1826, and died in New York February 12, L892. Hi- intimate friend, 

 James Douglass, has drawn with a loving hand a sketch of his life, 

 fromwhich I have taken freely the details of hi y years * He came 



of Puritan stock, including oh his mother's side the mystic Peter Sterry 

 and the preacher, Thoma ry, author of a notable tract, " The Rol 



among the Bishops," in 1667, in England, and ' ionsider and John Sterry, 

 mathematicians in New England. For a shorl period only he att< nded 

 the public school, and then, to aid in the support of his widowed mother 

 and her family, he worked successively, a few months in each, in a 

 printing office, an apothecary's shop, and a bookstore, and later in a 

 country store. Bent on studying medicine, he kepi a skeleton and 

 home-made chemical apparatus under the counter, using the stove for a 

 furnace. Mr Douglas 3ays thai with this equiprnenl he made investiga- 

 tions into the properties of hydriodic acid, anticipating to a certain 

 extent those of Deville. During a trip to New Haven, in 1845, al the 

 meeting of the Association of Naturalists and Geologists he acted as 

 reporter for a New York paper. Here he attracted the attention of the 

 elder Silliman, who facilitated his admission into Yale, made him hie 

 assistanl in water analyses, and took him into his household. This was 

 the greal turning point of his life and doubtless determined his chem- 

 ical and mineralogical career, ruder happy auspices while al Yi 

 between his eighteenth and tw< i year, he contributed eighteen 



papers to Silliman's Journal and wrote the Organic Chemistry for Silli- 

 maivs First Principles. 



At twenty years of age, in 1847, he became Chemisi and Mineralogist 

 to the ( leological Survey of Canada, a connection which he retained' till 

 1872. The Canadian Survey had largely to do with a greal developm< 

 of crystaljim and with varied mineral resources. Hunt threw his 



energies into the work before him and, single-handed, worked oul th 



as. Amer. Inst. Min. Eng., I 



LVII— Bi i ■ '■ >>r., Vol. ). 1892. 



