1892.] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 1'4 



Avenue Hotel, from mitral disease of the heart. Dr. Hunt was 

 born in Norwich, Conn., September 5, 182G, and came of an old 

 New England family, which had first settled in Massachusetts as 

 far back as 1G35. He was educated for the medical profession, but 

 his love for chemistry and mineralogy led him to become a special 

 student, and he was soon appointed an assistant to Professor Ben- 

 jamin Silliman, Sr., in Yale College. In 1847 he was appointed 

 chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada, which 

 position he held until he resigned it in 1872. He made the first sys- 

 tematic attempt to subdivide and classify geologically the stratiform, 

 crystalline rocks ; a work to which he brought not only his studies 

 throughout Canada and the United States, but those made during 

 repeated visits to the British Islands and continental Europe. To 

 him science is indebted for the distinctions and the designations of 

 Laurentian, Norian, Huronian, Montalban, Taconian and Kewee- 

 nian, all of which have passed into the literature of geology. He 

 was one of the organizers of the Laval University, at Quebec, and 

 was professor of chemistry there from 1856 to 1862. For four years 

 he was lecturer in McGill University, Montreal, and was professor 

 of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1872 

 to 1878. He had the following degrees: M. A., Harvard; Sc. D., 

 Laval; LL.D., McGill, and finally LL.I)., Cambridge, England. 

 A fellow of the Royal Society of London since 1859, he was a 

 member of a large number of other societies, both American and 

 foreign. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences; 

 had been president of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, and of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and 

 was twice president of the American Chemical Society. He was 

 one of the founders, and the first president by election of the Royal 

 Society of Canada. One of the organizers of the International 

 Geological Congress, he was its first secretary, and was a vice- 

 president at the congresses of Paris, 1878; Bologna, 1881, and 

 London, 1888. Dr. Hunt was a member of the international juries 

 at Paris in 1855 and in 1867, and at the Centennial E.xhibition in 

 1876. He was an officer of the French Order of the Legion of 

 Honor, aad an officer of the Italian Order of St. Mauritius and St. 

 Lazarus. In 1878 he retired from public professional life. Dr. 

 Hunt was the author of many works, among which are "A New 

 Ba.sis for Chemistry," "Systematic Mineralogy," and "Chemical 

 and Geological Essays." 



Dr. H. Carrington Bolton delivered the Fifth Lecture of the 

 Public Course on — 



Street Scenes in Cairo and Glimpses of the Nile, 



illustrated by lantern views, partly original. 



At the close of the lecture the meeting adjourned. 

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