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love of science; and after a few years, during which he had ac- 
quired in his spare moments a profound knowledge of the geol- 
ogy of the eastern part of the Province, he resigned his charge at 
Antigonish and decided to devote himself wholly to scientific 
work. He was not long without definite employment, his repu- 
tation as a naturalist leading to his appointment by the Nova 
Scotian Government to make a collection of our minerals for the 
London International Exhibition of 1862, and to superintend the 
whole of the Nova Scotian section at that Exhibition. He was 
afterwards sent on similar service to the Dublin Exhibition of 
1865, the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the Philadelphia Exhibition 
of 1876, and the London Fisheries Exhibition of 1883. In 1869 
we find him on the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada, 
and, on leaving the Survey, the Nova Scotian Government shewed 
its appreciation of his services by appointing him Curator of the 
Provincial Museum, of which he had been to a large extent the 
creator. He held this office until his death ; and under his charge 
the Museum has acquired such dimensions as to demand a special 
building for the display of its collections. 
Dr. Honeyman was elected a member of this Institute on the 
3rd December, 1866. In 1870 he was made a member of 
Council, and in 1871 was elected to the office of Secretary, which 
office he held, at first singly and in late years jointly with a 
colleague who took charge of the Institute’s records, until his 
death, a period of 18 years. How laborious the duties of this 
office were, few of us have any idea. They included not only the 
conducting of correspondence with the learned Societies abroad, 
with which we have been from time to time in communication, but 
also the receipt and preservation of the various publications 
which these Societies have sent us, and the transmission to them 
of copies of our Transactions in return. But these services, though 
large in themselves, form but a small part of what he did for us. 
For it is to the long series of valuable papers which he communi- 
cated to the Institute, and which we had the honour of publishing 
in our Transactions, that the reputation which our Institute has 
established abroad islargely due. These papers he might in many 
cases have communicated to other Societies with greater advantage 
