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Avenue Hotel, from mitral disease of the heart. Dr. Hunt was 
born in Norwich, Conn., September 5, 1826, and came of an old 
New England family, which had first settled in Massachusetts as 
far back as 1635. He was educated for the medical profession, but 
his love for chemistry and mineralogy led him to become a special 
student, and he was soon appointed an assistant to Professor Ben- 
jamin Silliman, Sr., in Yale College. In 1847 he was appointed 
chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada, which 
position he held until he resigned it in 1872. He made the first sys- 
tematic attempt to subdivide and classify geologically the stratiform 
erystalline rocks ; a work to which he brought not only his studies 
throughout Canada and the United States, but those made during 
repeated visits to the British Islands and continental Europe. To 
him science is indebted for the distinctions and the designations of 
Laurentian, Norian, Huronian, Montalban, Taconian and Kewee- 
nian, all of which have passed into the literature of geology. He 
was one of the organizers of the Laval University, at Quebec, and 
was professor of chemistry there from 1856 to 1862. For four years 
he was lecturer in McGill University, Montreal, and was professor~ 
of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1872 
to 1878. He had the following degrees: M. A., Harvard; Se. D., 
Laval; LL.D., McGill, and finally LL.D., Cambridge, England. 
A fellow of the Royal Society of London since 1859, he was a 
member of a large number of: other societies, both American and 
foreign. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences ; 
had been president of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, and of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and 
was twice president of the American Chemical Society. He was 
one of the founders, and the first president by election of the Royal 
Society of Canada. One of the organizers of the International 
Geological Congress, he was its first secretary, and was a vice- 
president at the congresses of Paris, 1878; Bologna, 1881, and 
London, 1888. Dr. Hunt was a member of the international juries 
at Paris in 1855 and in 1867, and at the Centennial Exhibition in 
1876. He was an officer of the French Order of the Legion of 
Honor, and an officer of the Italian Order of St. Mauritius and St. 
Lazarus. In 1878 he retired from public professional life. Dr. 
Hunt was the author of many works, among which are ‘‘ A New 
Basis for Chemistry,” ‘Systematic Mineralogy,” and ‘ Chemical 
and Geological Essays.”’ 
Dr. H. Carrineton Bouton delivered the Fifth Lecture of the 
Public Course on— 
Street Scenes in Cairo and Glimpses of the Nile, 
illustrated by lantern views, partly original. 
At the close of the lecture the meeting adjourned. 
Vou. XI.—6 * 
