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Vancotiver Island, which contains, as an appendix, a Hst of the various 

 animals he had collected and identified, the first faunistic list for our 

 Western Provinces. His collections were deposited in the British 

 Museum at South Kensington. Somewhat later he was employed 

 in archaeological investigations by the viceroy of Egypt and devoted 

 much attention to the ' poisonous snakes of the country, acquiring a 

 dexterity in manipulating them that was the envy of even the profes- 

 sional snake-charmers, who honoured him by making him a sheikh of 

 their art. In 1872 he was appointed the first manager of the Brighton 

 Aquarium, a post from which he was called by death later in the same 

 year. Buckland describes him as a big, unostentatious, large-hearted 

 man, a delightful companion and a first class practical naturalist. 

 Lord was the author of other works and of numerous shorter contri- 

 butions to Land and Water and other popular periodicals, but The 

 Naturalist was his most important production, containing much infor- 

 mation as to the Columbian fauna that is of interest to-day. 



Two other names deserve mention here as important contributors 

 to our knowledge of the marine fauna of the Pacific Coast, those of 

 G. M. Dawson and the Rev. G. W. Taylor, the latter a born naturalist, 

 whose indefatigable zeal as a collector gathered together a remarkable 

 series of forms illustrative of the western marine fauna, to say nothing 

 of his extensive entomological collections. Both Dawson and he were 

 members of this Society and notices of their scientific activities are 

 already to be found in its Transactions. 



Turning to the central provinces one thinks at once of Richardson's 

 Fauna Borealis Americana, a splendid contribution to the fauna of 

 our Northern territories. But although many items of zoological 

 interest may be culled from the journals of the employés of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company, the systematic accounts of the Zoology of these prov- 

 inces have been largely the work of men who are yet with us and are 

 therefore excluded from mention here. One name, however, may be 

 mentioned, that of Henry Youle Hind, whose work on The Canadian 

 Red River Exploring Expedition (London 1860), though mainly of 

 geological and ethnological interest, still contains material of value 

 to the zoologist. Hind was for several years Professor of Chemistry 

 and Geology in Trinity College, Toronto, and took part in several 

 important exploring expeditions under the Dominion Government, in 

 addition to that already mentioned. Most noteworthy, perhaps, was 

 that to the interior of the Labrador peninsula, an account of which he 

 published m 1863. He also undertook a geological reconnaissance of 

 Nova Scotia for the Provincial Government and rendered important 

 services in connection with the Fisheries Commission of 1876. His 

 explorations on the Labrador coast resulted in the discovery of exten- 



