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of our Field Meetings at Grand Lake 24 years ago. I shall never forget 

 the delightful day which I spent with him in botanizing. 



JULES MARCOU, who had been one of our corresponding members 

 e ince 1891, died at Cambridge on the 17th of April. He was born at 

 Salins, France, in 1824. He studied at the College of St. Loui?, Paris, 

 but failing health led him to make an excursion to Switzerland, where he 

 soon acquired an intense love for the study of Geology. At the age of 

 21 he assisted Jules Thurman in his work on the Geology of the Jura 

 Mountains. Here he met Louis Agassiz, with whom two years later he 

 explored the Eastern United States and Canada. In 1850 he embodied 

 these reserches in a geological map of the United States and the 

 British Provinces of North America. For five years he was Professor 

 of Geology at Zurich. In 1861 we find him associated with Louis 

 Agassiz founding the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, U. S. A. In 

 1867 he was decorated with the Cr.oss of the Legion of Honor. He was 

 a member of many scientific societies and published many valuable 

 papers, maps and books. In common with our own Dr. Honeyman, 

 he took special interest in the study of the Huronian, Cambrian, and 

 Primordial Silurian rocks, and assisted the Doctor in the identification 

 of some of the more obscure Nova Scotian fossils of these systems. He 

 was a strong advocate of the Taconic system, since pronounced by Dana 

 to be identical with the Lower Silurian system. It was, upon the 

 proposal of Dr. Honeyman who labored in the same field, that he 

 became one of our corresponding members. 



KEV. JOHN AMBROSE, D. C. L., who died at Sackville, on September 

 12th, may be regarded as one of the founders of this Institute. Before 

 it was organized he promised his hearty support a promise which we 

 shall see was faithfully kept. He was indeed proposed as a member of 

 the first Council, but probably owing to the fact that he resided at that 

 time at Margaret's Bay he was unable to act. 



He was born in St. John of Irish parents, received his common 

 school education at Truro, and was graduated from King's College, 

 Windsor receiving the degree of B. A. in 1852, M. A. in 1856, and 

 D. C. L. in 1888. 



For over 44 years he labored successfully and acceptably as a clergy- 

 man ; 2i years at Liverpool, 3 years at New Dublin, 13 years at 

 Margaret's Bay, 23 years at Digby and 3 years at Herring Cove, and 

 for 2 years more he enjoyed at his country farm at Sackrille the 

 respite from labor which he needed and which he had so well earned. 



