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the world of science; and to that brilliant company Dr. Ells belonged. 
He was a younger member of the line but he belonged to that illustrious 
company, and its ranks have been sadly thinned in recent years. No 
vacant place in that diminishing company arouses more sincere regret 
than the place which Robert Wheelock Ells occupied. Not in Canada 
alone but in other lands he will be missed, and when in Scotland last 
summer (1911) the writer saw many leading ‘old country’ geologists, who 
had been charmed with Dr. Ells when meeting him in Britain the 
previous year, and the regret they expressed was deep and sincere, so 
strongly had Dr. Ells’ attractive, genial personality, and great gifts im- 
pressed them. 
But though Dr. Ells was the most genial of men his geniality was 
equalled by his sincerity and his loyalty. He was the truest of friends, 
and the most unselfish of colleagues. Science in Canada can ill afford 
to part with a worker so devoted and untiring, and the scientific brother- 
hood will find his place impossible to fill. 
3.—Dr. Henry Taytor Bovey. 
The following memoir of the late Dr. Bovey has been prepared by 
Professor Ernest Brown, M. Se., M. Eng., Professor of Applied Me- 
chanics at McGill University. 
The death of Dr. H. T. Bovey, at Eastbourne, England on Feb. 
2nd, 1912, has removed one who, for many years, played an important 
part in the educational advancement of this country. The Faculty 
of Applied Science of McGill University owes much to the energy and 
zeal of its founder and first dean. The establishment of this Faculty, 
the securing of its buildings and endowments, and its development 
along lines which have made its work so well known, constitute a life 
work of no mean value, and these achievements are a permanent tribute 
to the memory of Dr. Bovey. He was born in Devonshire, England 
in 1852, and after a course of private tuition entered Queens’ College, 
Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and took a high place in the 
tripos examination. After garduating from Cambridge he entered the 
engineering profession, and was for some time on the staff of the Mersey 
Docks and Harbour Board of Liverpool, in whose service he carried out 
responsible work. His real life work began, however, when in 1878 
he accepted the professorship of civil engineering and applied mechanics 
in McGill University. From that date his interest in, and love for 
Canada, grew steadily and he early recognized the great importance 
of having an institution which would provide a first class training for 
the large body of engineers who would be required for the development 
