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and afterwards successfully commanded the Allan steamers, S?. Geo ge, 
Hibernian, Circasian, Peruvian, Sardinian and Parisian, and suc- 
ceeded Captain Wylie as Commodore of the Allan fleet. He was 
appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1867, and on 
leaving the steamship service was made Chairman of the Board of 
Examiners of Masters and Mates, Commissioner for enquiring into 
wrecks, and one of the nautical advisers to the Government of Canada. 
He compiled some valuable nautical distance tables, and was a valu- 
able contributer to the press on nautical matters of public import- 
ance. 
Rev. Moses Harvey, LL.D., F. R. G.S., F. R. 8. C., who was a 
corresponding member of this Institute since 1890, died on the third 
of September, eighty-one years of age. He was born at Armagh, 
Treland, educated at the Royal College, Belfast, and came to New- 
foundland in 1852, and was for 26 years pastor of St. Andrew’s 
Church in St. John’s. In 1878 he retired from the ministry for the 
greater leisure of literary and scientific work, in which he became the 
most distinguished represen‘ative of that island. Apart from his 
published works, he contributed since 1869 a large number of articles 
and sketches on the resources of Newfoundland, to the leading news- 
papers and magazines of Britain, Canada, and the United States— 
sufficient to make many volumes. The best known of his published 
works are, ‘The Characteristics of the Present Age,” ‘Thoughts on 
; 
the Poetry and Literature of the Bible,” ‘The Testimony of Nineveh 
to the Veracity of the Bible,” ‘Lectures on the Harmony of Science 
and Revelation,” ‘“‘ Lectures on Egypt and its Monuments,” ‘‘ Lectures 
Literary and Biographical,” ‘Cormack’s Journey Across Newfound- 
land,” ‘“‘ Across Newfoundland with the Governor,” ‘‘ Newfoundland 
the Oldest British Colony,” ‘Text Book of Newfoundland History,” 
“Where Are We and Whither Tending,” ‘“‘ Newfoundland as it is in 
1894,” “A Handbook and Tourist’s Guide,” ‘‘ Newfoundland in the 
Jubilee Year.” He also prepared the descriptive and statistical arti 
cles on Newfoundland in the “Encyclopedia Britannica” and in 
“ Johnson’s Universal Cyclopedia.” He was the discoverer and first 
describer of that gigantic ‘“ devil-fish ” which was called after him by 
Professor Verrill Architeuthus Harvey. 
