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possessions in North America, and during the years 1843 and 1844 he 

 made a series of magnetic observations extending as far as Fort Good 

 Hope on the Mackenzie River, the results of which were recently revised 

 and published by him in a work entitled, " Diary of a Magnetic Survey 

 of a Portion of the Dominion of Canada, Chiefly in the North-Western 

 Territories:" (Longmans, Green & Co.) Mount Lefroy, in the proximity 

 of Kicking Horse Pass, in the Rocky Mountains, was named after him, 

 as was also the village of Lefroy, in the County of Simcoe, in this 

 Province, thus preserving the memory of his name in the two parts of 

 the Dominion in which his work and associations chiefly lay. 



"In 1844 he was placed in permanent charge of the Magnetic Obser- 

 vatory in Toronto, and in 1852 was President of the Canadian Institute, 

 having been Vice-President in the previous year, the year of its origin. 

 In the first volume of the proceedings of the Institute are to be found 

 papers by him on " Theometric Registers " and on " The Probable 

 Number of the Native Indian Populations of British America." Return- 

 ing to England in 1853, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Artillery 

 Institution at Woolwich, which he had himself been mainly instrumental 

 in founding in 1838. Passing by minor appointments, in 1857 he was 

 gazetted Inspector-General of Army Schools, and in 1869 Director-General 

 of Ordnance. In 1871 he was appointed Governor of the Bermudas, and 

 during his term of office was made a Companion of the Bath, and 

 Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. On 

 his return home he published, in two large volumes, the early Chronicles 

 of the Bermudas (Longmans, Green & Co ) ; and one of his latest 

 literary labours was to edit for the Hakluyt Society, from a manuscript 

 in the Sloan Collection of the British Museum, " The Historye of the 

 Bermudaes or Summer Islands," the authorship of which is attributed to 

 Captain John Smith, the historian of Virginia, and covers a period from 

 1609 t<^ 1622. In 1880 he was for a short period Governor of Tasmania. 

 In 1 88 1 he attained the rank of Colonel Commandant in the Royal 

 Artillery, and in 1882 retired from the service with the rank of General 



" My father belonged to a great number of the learned societies in 

 London, and took an active interest in their proceedings. He was a 

 fellow of the Royal Society, the Geographical Society, the Society of 

 Antiquaries, the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Hakluyt 

 Society. He was also a member of the Council of the Royal Society 

 from 1878 to 1880, and of the Geographical Society for one year. He 

 was a life member of the British Association for the xAdvancement of 

 Science, and in 1884 presided over the Geographical Society of that 

 Association when it met in Montreal. He served on the Committee 



