DR. HONEYMAN’S WRITINGS—GILPIN. 3509 
of the hammer to secure forms, new, varied and beautiful, it will 
be readily admitted that the work was enough to excite mono- 
mania, and to exact application. 
“ Another consideration was that I was acquiring a branch of 
knowledge, and an intimate acquaintance with a type which I 
was assured would be of infinite importance in future works in 
the Geology of Nova Scotia. Yet other incentives were my fa- 
cilities through International Exhibitions, of receiving the inval- 
uable aid in the work, by intercourse with the great paleonto- 
logists of England and other countries, of the examination of 
Museum and Exhibition Collections, and the appreciation of my 
work by International Judges. The work of an amateur 
had become the work of a profession. This change and removal) 
to Halifax, a lithological centre, where fossils in the rocks are 
hardly recognisable, led to the association of the study of lithol- 
ogy with that of paleontology.” 
In 1867 he read an interesting paper on the Geology of the 
Londonderry Iron Mines. In 1868 he returned again with 
renewed ardor to the study of the rocks of Arisaig, his favorite 
hunting ground, a series of remote hills on the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence, a barrier between the waves of the Gulf and the soft car- 
boniferous measures of Antigonish County, and traced the 
extension of the Silurian beds into the East River district of 
Pictou. In March 14, 1870, he read a very interesting and valu- 
able paper on the Geological relations of the iron ores of this 
district. The writer was professionally engaged in this locality 
about this time, and remembers very well the intricate problems 
that were presented at every attempt to define clearly the posi- 
tion of the various deposits. Although much attention has been 
given to it by several eminent Geologists, and large sums of money 
expended by mining engineers in proving and extending the beds 
and veins of ore, there are points not yet cleared up. 
From this date the Doctor became a frequent and regular con- 
tributor to our Transactions. In 1871 he was elected Secretary 
of the Institute, an office which he held in conjunction with his 
position as Curator of the Museum until his death, although for 
the last few years, to enable him to devote himself more especially 
