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scientific work. He examined particularly the geology of Cape Breton and 



the eastern counties of Nova Scotia, paying special attention in later years 

 to glaciation and transported materials. Many of his observations were 

 published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Natural Science of Nova 

 - >tia. Much of his work was brought together, a few years ago, in a small 

 work entitled "Giants and Pygmies." 



Dr. Honeyman acted as executive officer of the Nova Scotia government 

 at several of the great international exhibitions held in the United States 

 and Europe, at which the products of Nova Scotia were shown. He was 

 for many years curator of the Provincial Museum at Halifax. He deliv- 

 ered several courses of lectures on geology in Dalhousie College, Halifax. 

 The University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, conferred upon him 

 the degree of D. C. L. 



On Thursday, the 17th October last, he closed the museum as usual at 4 

 p. m., chatted in his customary lively manner with those he met on his way 

 home, when he was seized with apoplexy and dropped on the sidewalk. He 

 recovered consciousness momentarily and remarked, " That was very sud- 

 den ; " but, within ten or fifteen minutes, although in the hands of two able 

 physicians, he passed away, leaving a sorrowing widow and four daughters. 

 His remains were accompanied to the Halifax cemetery by a very large 

 procession of leading citizens, on Sunday, 20th October. 



G. L. 



Charles Albert Ashbtjrner, Sc. D. (University of Pennsylvania),* 

 was born in Philadelphia, February, 1854, and educated at the Friends' 

 Central School, and the Philadelphia High School. In 1870 he entered the 

 Towne Scientific School of the University of Pennsylvania, and was grad- 

 uated in 1*74, at the head of his class, delivering the valedictory on com- 

 mencement day. 



While an undergraduate he was one of the aids on a hydrographic survey 

 of the Delaware river. After graduation he served in the U. S. Light-Hou-e 

 Survey Corps; and was commissioned, in 1874,aid to Mr. John H. Deuces, 

 Assistant Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for the Juniata river district. 

 With his classmate and fellow aid, Mr. G. E. Billin, he made a contour line 

 survey of the southern slope of Jack's mountain, and the underlying vales, 

 to determine the outcrops of Clinton fossil ore beds, extending from Lewis- 

 town south to Orbisonia, and west to the summit of the East Broad Top 

 coal basin. Maps and many beautifully constructed measured cross-sections, 

 local maps of the fault in Black Log gap and of the curious downthrow at 



* By J. P. Lesley. 



