No. 1.] OBITUARY. 119 



OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Mr. Edward Hartley, who died in Pictou, Nova Scotia, on 

 the 10th November last, was the eldest son of Mr. William M. B. 

 Hartley, of New York, and grandson of Mr. Philos Blake, of New 

 Haven, U.S. He was born in Montreal on the 8th of Novem- 

 ber, 1847, and was consequently little over twenty-three years of 

 age. Educated in the schools of Messrs. French & Kussell, of 

 New Haven, he early showed a great aptitude for the study of the 

 natural and physical sciences, and for mechanics, tastes which he 

 inherited from both of his parents. At the age of fifteen he be- 

 came a student in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, 

 where he completed the course of study with much credit to him- 

 self Though still very young, he was, on leaving the school, at 

 once charged with the examination and surveying of mineral lands 

 in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and subsequently with the erec- 

 tion of machinery for washing gold, in North Carolina. His 

 abilities attracted the attention of the officers of the geological sur- 

 vey of Canada, under Sir William Logan, and in July, 1868, he 

 joined the survey as a geological assistant; the following year he 

 was appointed Mhiing Engineer to the geological survey. His 

 duties from this time confined him to the Coal Fields of Nova Sco- 

 tia, where, in 1868, he worked conjointly with Sir William Logan 

 and in 1869, alone, completing a careful and detailed survey of 

 the Pictou Coal basin, of which an elaborate report by Sir William 

 and another by himself, was printed and privately distributed 

 before his death. It will be published with a map in the forth- 

 coming volume of the geological survey. 



The Appendix to this report contains a large number of coal 

 analyses made by Mr. Hartley in the laboratory of the survey, and 

 also numerous experiments on the heating power of the various 

 steam coals as compared with each other and with wood. These 

 practical trials were made in trips of several hour each on steam- 

 ers and locomotives, and occupied several weeks. They were 

 conducted in such a manner as to command the full confidence 

 both of the railway officials and the coal owners, and cannot fail 

 to be of great public value. 



During 1870, Mr. Hartley was engaged with an assistant, in 

 the survey of the Cumberland coal-basin in Nova Scotia, and of 

 the Cape Breton collieries, and had nearly completed his labours 



