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was obliged to resign owing to the pressure of other work. For more 

 than 30 years he was retained by the Attorney-General of Ontario as 

 analyst and expert toxicologist in connection with criminal cases. 

 During the same period he was Public Analyst for the Inland Revenue 

 Department. 



The variety and pressing nature of his daily work prevented him 

 from writing any extensive scientific treatises; but numerous papers 

 from his pen are to be found in the Transactions of the Canadian 

 Institute, the Report of the Bureau of Mines and in the Transactions 

 of the Royal Society. 



In 1915 he was honoured by the University of Toronto with the 

 degree LL.D., and in 1917 a similar honour was confçrred upon him 

 by McGill University. 



In 1917 he was made Honorary Member of the Engineering 

 Institute of Canada. He was a fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, 

 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 



He was an ex-president of the Royal Canadian Institute, and 

 ex-chairman of the Canadian Section of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry. 



This is the merest outline of an academical and professional life 

 crowded with interesting detail. While his activities and his value 

 to the University were acknowledged by his colleagues, he had en- 

 deared himself to them through his character. He was appreciated 

 as the wit, the humourist, the poet and the artist, who redeemed the 

 academical life from the reproach of being dull and pedantic. His 

 wit and humour, his poetry and his pictures cannot be treated 

 separately; they were blended by chemical fusion in one product. 

 They live for his colleagues in many and consoling memories, and 

 especially in the little volume called "Way-side Weeds"; a humble 

 title testifying alike to the author's modesty and to his love of flowers. 



It is difficult to find happier versions of academic humour and 

 vivacious persiflage than for example the verses called the Duffer's 

 Elegy, celebrating the game of golf as played in Hades, especially 

 the stanzas: — 



"Cocytus Styx and Phlegethon 



As hazards serve extremely well 

 In this particular alone 



The Lambton links are just like Hell. 



