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of our Field Meetings at Grand Lake 24 years ago. I shall never forget 
the delightful day which I spent with him in botanizing. 
JuLES Marcov, who had been one of our corresponding members 
Since 1891, died at Cambridge on the 17th of April. He was born at 
Salins, France, in 1824. He studied at the College of St. Louis, Paris, 
but failing health led him to make an excursion to Switzerland, where he 
soon acquired an intense love for the study of Geology. At the age of 
21 he assisted Jules Thurman in his work on the Geology of the Jura 
Mountains. Here he met Louis Agassiz, with whom two years later he 
explored the Eastern United States and Canada. In 1850 he embodied 
these reserches in a geological map of the United States and the 
British Provinces of North America. For five years he was Professor 
of Geology at Zurich. In 1861 we find him associated with Louis 
Agassiz founding the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, U.S. A. In 
1867 he was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He was 
a member of many scientific societies and published many valuable 
papers, maps and books. In common with our own Dr. Honeyman, 
he took special interest in the study of the Huronian, Cambrian, and 
Primordial Silurian rocks, and assisted the Doctor in the identification 
of some of the more obscure Nova Scotian fossils of these systems. He 
was a strong advocate of the Taconic system, since pronounced by Dana 
to be identical with the Lower Silurian system. It was, upon the 
proposal of Dr. Honeyman who labored in the same field, that he 
became one of our corresponding members. 
Rey. Joun Amprose, D. C. L., who died at Sackville, on September 
12th, may be regarded as one of the founders of this Institute. Before 
it was organized he promised his hearty support—a promise which we 
shall see was faithfully kept. He was indeed proposed as a member of 
the first Council, but probably owing to the fact that he resided at that 
time at Margaret’s Bay he was unable to act. 
He was born in St. John of Irish parents, received his common 
school education at Truro, and was graduated from King’s College, 
Windsor—receiving the degree of B. A. in 1852, M. A. in 1856, and 
DA C2L. in 1838: 
For over 44 years he labored successfully and acceptably as a clergy- 
man ; 23 years at Liverpool, 3 years at New Dublin, 13 years at 
Margaret’s Bay, 23 years at Digby and 3 years at Herring Cove, and 
for 2} years more he enjoyed at his country farm at Sackville the 
respite from labor which he needed and which he had so well earned. 
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