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Sciences of Cherbourg, France. He was one of the original fellows and 

 a president of the Eoyal Society of Canada, and a member of various 

 other learned societies at home and abroad. And at the time of his 

 death he was the president of the Botanical Club of Canada, and of the 

 Nova Scotian Institute of Science, of which he was an active member 

 and supporter for thirty-one years. 



