DR. HONEYMAN’S WRITINGS—GILPIN. 361 
boro, led to his efforts to delineate the march of the ice cap across 
the Lower Provinces. The latest contribution to this fascinating 
study which appeals equally to the Geologist, the Chemist, the 
Physicist, the Mathematician, and the Astronomer, is an extremely 
valuable paper in the last report of the United States Geological 
Survey. Much yet remains for the Glacial student in this Province. 
The strize have never been studied, or classified, nor have the 
abnormal etchings been observed to see if they are retreat notes 
of a dwindling glacier, or the intermittent scoring of berg and 
floe ice. The course of the ice flow being assumed, the compara- 
tive strength of the rock in situ, and of the stone chisels, fast held 
in the ice matrix, have an important bearing on the amount of 
erosion to be accounted for. However, as I understand that our 
learned President has already referred to this part of Dr. 
Honeyman’s labors, I need not say more, as I know that in his 
hands the subject has received much better attention than I can 
bestow on it. 
The Doctor did not take as active a part in the Antwerp and 
Colonial Exhibitions as he did in the preceding ones, the policy 
of the Government having been turned more toward exhibiting 
the material resources of the Province. The stores of the Musuem, 
however, were largely drawn upon for these exhibitions, the work: 
of collecting, forwarding, etc., being assumed by the writer. 
His papers on the Geology of King’s County were followed by 
others on Aylesford, Annapolis, Yarmouth and Digby Counties, 
so that his maps covered the greater part of the Province outside 
the granites,and the slates and quartzites of the gold fields. 
Polariscopic and macroscopic examinations of the rocks of various 
localities were undertaken by him in the search for more evidence 
bearing upon his theories. The results of this work were com- 
municated in several interesting papers. 
During the past two or three years his attention was turned 
particularly to the new and interesting deep sea sponges, etc., 
collected by the officers of the cable steamers while engaged in 
the work of repairing and replacing cables. An immense amount 
of work was done by him in this connection, a first instalment 
of which appears in the Transactions just issued, and it is to be 
