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his excellent account of the administration of the Earl (afterwards 

 Marquis) of Dufferin. During his travels in Europe, Dr. Stewart 

 had the advantage of introductions from Lord Dufferin to some of 

 his friends, including Tennyson, the late Lord Lytton and other cele- 

 brities. He wTote in The Cosmopolitan, after the great poet's death, 

 a sympathetic tribute to his genius and character. His reminiscences 

 of Lord Lytton, the first Earl and Governor-General of India, were 

 published in the Canadian Magazine. Dr. Stewart's purely literary 

 papers — including his sketches of Carlyle, Longfellow, Holmes and 

 Thoreau — were mostly delivered as lectures before the Literary and 

 Historical Society of Quebec, of which he was for many years president. 

 Others were published in the British reviews, Emerson the Thinker 

 appearing in the Scottish Beview in 1888. Altogether three volumes 

 of essays were given to the public under his name — two of these 

 (Essays from Eeviews) coming out successively in 1892 and 1893. 

 That Dr. Stewart should have been honoured by Canadian universities 

 was not surprising, but that he should have received a doctorate from 

 four of them (Laval, McGill, King's, Windsor, X.S., and Bishop's, 

 Lennoxville, P.Q.) bears witness to his wide popularity. He was one 

 of the charter members of this Society and for more than a dozen 

 years bore the office of secretary to Section TI. He contributed a paper 

 on the Early Sources of Canadian History to the 3rd Volume of our 

 Transactions. 



The death of Mr. Charles Baillargé occurred unexpectedly on May 

 10. His correspondence with the Secretary as late as April 5 manifest- 

 ed an active interest in the approaching meeting of the Society. He 

 was born at Quebec in 18.27 of a family of engineers and artists and 

 early developed an unusual capacity for the mathematical sciences. 

 From 1866 to about 1809 he was city engineer of Quebec, and for a 

 time he was Joint engineer in connection with the extensive harbour 

 works carried out in the Eiver St. Charles estuary by the Quebec Har- 

 bour Commission. His first training was as a land surveyor and for 

 a long time he was Chairman of the Board of Examiners of Land 

 Surveyors. On matters relating to the Mathematical and Physical 

 sciences his aid and counsel were continually invoked by public bodies 

 and liy the Provincial and Dominion Governments. His skill as an 

 architect is manifest in his native city, notably in the buildings of 

 Laval University, the churches and buildings of the Sisters of Charity 

 and of the Good Shepherd, the Music Hall, the Jail, the Monument 

 des Braves at Ste Foye and in the aqueduct bridge over the St. Charles 

 and the Dufferin Terrace. From 1863 to 1865 he was joint architect 

 for the Parliament and Departmental Buildings at Ottawa. 



