DR. HONEYMAN’S WRITINGS—GILPIN. 357 
ART, II].—THE GEOLOGICAL WRITINGS oF Rey. D. HONEYMAN, 
D. C, L—By E. Gipin, Jz., INSPECTOR OF MINES, &c. 
My remarks this evening are more a summary of the Geologi- 
eal work done by the late Dr. Honeyman, through the transac- 
tions of our Institute, than an attempt to follow him in all his 
Geological writings. The doctor was a steady and interesting 
contributor to many English and foreign Scientific periodicals 
and transactions which are seldom seen in this quiet corner of 
the world, but the Institute presents the best of his labors, his 
field work in the Province. His articles, extending over many 
pages of our volumes, exhibit bold and logical attempts to un- 
ravel problems in geology, which have been in many cases of 
great assistance to those working after him. While tenacious 
of his opinion once formed, he was open to conviction and ready 
to admit the arguments of those who brought experience acquir- 
ed elsewhere. 
I find that he made his debut as a geologist in a paper read in 
1859, before the Nova Scotia Literary and Scientific Society of 
Halifax on “the Fossiliferous Rocks of Arisaig.” 
The London Exhibition of 1862, was taken advantage of by 
the Provincial Government for a display of Nova Scotia miner- 
als and Drs. Honeyman and How, and Messrs. Campbell and 
Poole, were commissioned to prepare papers and specimens illus- 
trative of its geology and mineralogy. The Doctor was entrust- 
ed with the charge of displaying and explaining the exhibits. 
During the discharge of his duties in London he had op- 
portunities of becoming acquainted with Sir R, Murchison, 
Mr. Salter, and Prof. Phillips and Prof. Fritsch, and many other 
eminent geologists, who were much interested in his collections, 
and afterwards kept up a friendly intercourse with him. 
The doctor performed similar duties at the Dublin International 
Exhibition on behalf of the Province, and a medal was awarded 
the Government, as had been the ‘case at the London Exhibition. 
