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chemistry and his industry made him a successful farmer, whose advice 

 was much sought after, and whose opinions carried indisputable weight. 

 An active member of the Baptist church, he gave evidence of strong 

 religious convictions in an unobtrusively consistent, upright life. 



The work of Francis Bain is deserving of recognition, not so much 

 for its extent as because of the perseverance with which he prosecuted 

 his studies, with little of the encouragement which others, less gifted by 

 nature, have profited by. He seemed to have reached the stage which 

 demands expansion where expansion was impossible, or of difl&cult 

 attainment. Eecognizing with Sir William Dawson, Dr. Ells and others 

 the true position in the Permo-Carboniferous of the St. Peter's and 

 Governor's Island rocks, as well as those of Gallas Point and the west- 

 ern shore of Prince Edward Island, and conceding the otherwise almost 

 universal occurrence of the Permian in the province, he, however, asso- 

 ciated a much more extensive and more distinctly defined existence of 

 the Trias than other geologists seemed willing to grant. While, possibly, 

 he was somewhat overinfluenced by enthusiasm in favour of his convic- 

 tions, and, at times, hasty in his conclusions, his opinions must be 

 regarded with respect as the outcome of conscientious study and obser- 

 vation. And if his isolation and the circumstances of his surroundings 

 debar him from a rank among the foremost of Canadian scientists, he 

 must, nevertheless, be accorded an honourable place as the first, and so 

 far the greatest, naturalist which his native province has produced. His 

 name is associated with Tylodendron Baini, Dawson, a species dis- 

 covered by him and so-named by Sir William Dawson in 1890. 



The Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Prince Edward 

 Island are about to place in Queen Square gardens in Charlottetown, 

 as a tribute to his memory, a large errant glacial granite boulder, bear- 

 nig a bronze tablet, inscribed: — 



Francis Bain, Geologist. 



1842-1894. 



Erected by the Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Prince 



Edward Island, 1903. 



Papees by Feancis Bain. 



Among the papers contributed by Mr. Bain to scientific journals 

 may be mentioned as probably the first in point of time, an article, 

 published in the Canadian Naturalist, Montreal, January, 1881, vol. 

 IX., 2nd series, on " Fossils from the Eed sandstone series of Prince 

 Edward Island." This paper contains, in addition to the geological 

 description of the southern part of the island, a list of fossil plants col- 



