PROCEEDINGS FOR 1921 V 



put interrompre sa merveilleuse activité d'esprit. A la première page 

 d'un de ses derniers ouvrages on pouvait lire ces mots: "En prépara- 

 tion, Blanche des Aulnes, roman canadien; Conjérences et Discours, 

 3e série." L'écrivain qui traçait ce programme de production future 

 avait plus de quatre-vingts ans! 



Sir Adolphe Routhier était l'un des membres fondateurs de la 

 Société royale, créée par le Marquis de Lome en 1882. Il avait été 

 président de notre académie canadienne de 1914 à 1915. Par son 

 décès celle-ci perd l'un de ses membres les plus illustres. 



WILLIAM HODGSON ELLIS. 



William Hodgson Ellis was borne in Holme Hall, Bakewell, 

 Derbyshire, near Chatsworth and Haddon Hall, on November 23rd, 

 1845. He was the son of the resident physician, John Eimeo Ellis, 

 and his wife, who was the only daughter of Mr. Joseph Hodgson of 

 Holme Hall. John Eimeo Ellis graduated from the University of 

 London in 1839 with gold medal in Anatomy and Physiology. He 

 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1840. He 

 emigrated with his family to the State of Illinois in 1857 and removed 

 to Toronto two years later. 



The subject of this sketch entered the University of Toronto in 

 1863, received his B.A. in 1867 with Gold Medal in Natural Science; 

 his M.A. in 1868, and his M.B. in 1870. He immediately went to 

 London, England, and obtained a position on the house staff of St. 

 Thomas' Hospital, securing his L.R.C.P. in the autumn of 1871, 

 when he returned to Canada. 



He settled down to practice his profession, but was immediately 

 offered the position of lecturer in chemistry in Trinity College, and 

 shortly afterwards he undertook similar duties in the newly-founded 

 School of Technology. This latter institution became in 1877 The 

 Ontario School of Practical Science in which he was Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry. In 1887 he became Professor of Applied Chem- 

 istry, a position which he held till his retirement. 



In 1907, when the School of Practical Science became the Faculty 

 of Applied Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto, he 

 was made head of instruction in chemistry for the whole University. 

 After the death of Dean Galbraith in 1914, he was made Dean of the 

 Faculty of Applied Science, from which position he retired in 1919. 



In the Medical Faculty, he held the position of Professor of 

 Toxicology and Medical Jurisprudence from 1897 to 1913, when he 



