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the day. His mind had become an instrument of precision for the 
discovery of scientific truth; but the rigour of his methods in that 
region had cast no fetters on his heart. How greatly such a man will 
be missed in the circle of his friends and associates it is needless to say, 
and many years must elapse before his memory and influence cease 
to be operative in the life of this Society. 
We have fortunately available an excellent notice of our late 
colleague, contributed to the Ottawa Naturalist of September, 1909, 
by a member of this Society who was intimately associated with him 
in his scientific labours, as well as in the work of Section IV, Mr. Lawrence 
M. Lambe. From this we permit ourselves to quote: 
“Tt is difficult to realize that the distinguished Paleontologist of 
the Geological Survey, Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, has passed from 
amongst us! By his death, which occurred on Sunday, the 8th of 
August, after an illness of some months’ duration, the Geological 
Survey has lost one of the ablest of its members, and Canada one of 
her best known workers in geological science. 
Dr. Whiteaves was born in Oxford, England, in 1835, and first 
came to this country in 1861 on a short visit. The following year he 
again crossed the Atlantic, this time to remain in Canada, taking up 
his residence in Montreal. Here he was for twelve years officially 
connected with the Montreal Natural History Society as its recording 
secretary and scientific curator of its museum. 
In 1876 he was appointed to the staff of the Geological Survey 
as Palæontologist in succession to the late Mr. K. Billings, the first 
Palæontologist to the Survey. How wise a selection this was, after 
years amply proved. He was made one of the Assistant Directors in 
1877 and Zoologist in 1883. 
As a boy he attended private schools in Oxford and London, and 
early developed a liking for natural science. Following the bent of 
his inclinations, he studied the fauna and flora of Oxfordshire, and 
became deeply interested in the geology of the neighbourhood of 
Oxford. At this time he took advantage of lectures to advanced stu- 
dents delivered by eminent professors of the day in the university of 
his native town. 
At the age of twenty-two, his first paper “On the Land and Fresh 
Water Mollusca inhabiting the neighbourhood of Oxford,” was pub- 
lished by the Ashmolean Society, of which he was shortly after made 
an honorary member. In 1859 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological 
Society of London. Two years later, as the result of his study of 
fossils of his own collecting, he established his reputation as a Palæon- 
tologist by the publication of two paleontological papers, one “On the 
