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THE LATE PROF. H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON. 



H. Alleyne Nicholson, M. D., D. Sc, F.R.S.E., F.G.S.,"etc., etc., 

 Re.s^ius professor of Natural History of the University of Aberdeen, S(. Andrews, 

 Scotland, died on January 19th, 1899 in his 55th year. He was born at Penrith, 

 Scotland, September nth, 1844, and educated at Appleby Grammar School, later 

 at Gottina:en and Edinburgh University. In 1869 he was appointed lecturer on 

 Natural History in his own Alma Mater, Edinburgh, but two years later, 1871, 

 accepted the offer made him by the Senate of the University of Toronto of the Chair 

 of Natural History. During his stay in Canada from 1871 to 1874, he took a foremost 

 part in advancing the study of Natural Science, including zoology and palaeontology. 

 In 1873 R'"- Nicholson finished his first volume of the " Repott upon the Palae- 

 ontology of the Province of Ontario,'^ 130 pp., 8 plates, Toronto 1874, which embraced 

 descriptions and figures of the organic remains of the Devonian formations of Western 

 Ontario. The more typical Devonian fossils which Dr. Nicholson had collected, by 

 the liberality of the Legislature, were placed in the Museum of the " College of 

 Technology" Toronto, in 1S73. The Second ^^ Report upon the Palaeontology of 

 the i r ovine e of Ontario, ^^ printed by order of the Legislative Assembly, contains 96 

 pages of text]and 4 plates of figures illustrating new or rare species of Palaeozoic fossils 

 from Ontario. These two volumes have been of great value to students of (ieology 

 and Palaeontology in Canada ever since. From Toronto, he went to the Durham Univ- 

 CoUeges of Physical Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and from 1877 to 1882 and again from 

 1890 to 1894 was lecturer on Geology at the British Museum, London, and subse- 

 quently became regius professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen 

 St Andrews. His "Manuals of Palaeontology and Zoology " for students, "Tabulate 

 Corals," " Monograph of British Graptolites," Monograph of British Stromatoporoids" 

 are among his best known and principal works of reference. 



Dr. Nicholson also wrote " Text-book of Geology " for Schools and Colleges, 266 

 pages. New York, 1872 ; and general papers on Geology, Palaeontology and mining 

 in Ontario published in the fournals of the Geological Society of London, of the 

 Canadian Institute, Toronto, Geological Magazine and other publications. He was one 

 of the best known and hard working palaeontologists. He will be greatly missed by 

 all of us here in Canada, who knew him and with whom he was carrying on cor- 

 respondence and assisting in so many ways to elucidate points of structure in Canadian 

 fossils. 



H. M. Ami. 





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