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to those who needed it, irrespective of their rank in society, could 

 hardly fail to be deeply and universally deplored. That it was so is 

 sufficiently indicated from the following announcement of his death in 

 the Fredericton Reporter of April, 1861 : 



The sudden death of Dr. Robb, occasioned by a violent pulmonary attack, 

 which took place on Tuesday afternoon, is an event which, while it will awaken 

 feelings of the deepest regret in this community, will also be regarded as a 

 public loss all over the Province. His earnest and constant devotion to the 

 duties of his profession, his zealous attachment to the agricultural interests of 

 the country, his high qualifications as a scholar, and his kind and affable man- 

 ners as a man, have for many years been recognized and duly acknowledged by 

 all who either had the pleasure of his personal acquaintance or who knew him 

 only through the medium of the familiar, yet learned and useful essays with 

 which he so frequently favored the public. It is, however, now that he has 

 gone, that the full impression of the loss we have sustained becomes painfully 

 evident. Every one bewails his loss; and every one, in this city especially, has 

 good reason for unaffected sori'ow. " 



Any one of whom the above could be written, as voicing the feeling 

 of the community in which he lived and labored, needs no other eulogy. 



The following is a list of the published writings of Dr. Robb, 

 derived partly from Bulletin 127 (1896) of the U. S. A. Geological 

 Survey, and in part from other sources : 



1. Remarks upon certain geological features of the River St. John, in New 



Brunswick, with an account of the Falls upwards from the sea, which 

 occur near its embouchure in the Bay of Fundy. 

 Brit. Assoc. Rep., Vol. 10, Trans, of Sections pp. 115-118 (1841). 

 Abs. Amer. Journ. of Science, Vol. 41. Pp. 55-56. 1841. 



2. Enccenia oration. King's College, Fredericton. Pp. 16. 



3. Report on the Agricultural Capabilities of the Province of New Brunswick. 



By Prof. J. W. F. Johnston. Fredericton, 1850. [This work contains 

 a letter by Dr. Robb on the geological structure of the Province, with 

 an accompanying geological map.] 



4. Report of the New Brunswick Society for the Encouragement of Agricul- 



ture, Home Manufactures and Commerce. Fredericton, 1851. 



5. Deposition of Richard C. Taylor, respecting the Asphaltum mine at Hills- 



borough, Albert County, N. B. Philadelphia, 1851. [This contains 

 a joint report on the same subject by Messrs. Taylor and Robb.] 



6. Notice of Observations on Drift Stria; in New Brunswick. Am. Assoc. Adv. 



Sci. Proc. Vol. 4, pp. 349-351. 1851. 



