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and afterwards successfully commanded the Allan steamers, St. Geo ye, 

 Hibernian, Circasian, Peruvian, Sardinian and Parisian, and suc- 

 ceeded Captain Wylie as Commodore of the Allan fleet. He was 

 appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1867, and on 

 leaving the steamship service was made Ch airman of the Board of 

 Examiners of Masters and Mates, Commissioner for enquiring into 

 wrecks, and one of the nautical advisers to the Government of Canada. 

 He compiled some valuable nautical distance tables, and was a valu- 

 able contributer to the press on nautical matters of public import- 

 ance. 



Rev. Moses Harvey, LL.D., F. R. G. S., F. R. S. C., who was a 

 corresponding member of this Institute since 1890, died on the third 

 of September, eighty-one years of age. He was born at Armagh, 

 Ireland, educated at the Royal College, Belfast, and came to New- 

 foundland in 1852, and was for 26 years pastor of St. Andrew's 

 Church in St. John's. In 1878 he retired from the ministry for the 

 greater leisure of literary and scientific work, in which he became the 

 most distinguished representative of that island. Apart from his 

 published works, he contributed since 1869 a large number of articles 

 and sketches on the resources of Newfoundland, to the leading news- 

 papers and magazines of Britain, Canada, and the United States 

 sufficient to make many volumes. The best known of his published 

 works are, "The Characteristics of the Present Age," " Thoughts on 

 the Poetry and Literature of the Bible," "The Testimony of Nineveh 

 to the Veracity of the Bible," " Lectures on the Harmony of Science 

 and Revelation," " Lectures on Egypt and its Monuments," " Lectures 

 Literary and Biographical," "Cormack's Journey Across Newfound- 

 land," "Across Newfoundland with the Governor," "Newfoundland 

 the Oldest British Colony," " Text Book of Newfoundland History," 

 "Where Are We and Whither Tending," " Newfoundland as it is in 

 1894," "A Handbook and Tourist's Guide," " Newfoundland in the 

 Jubilee Year." He also prepared the descriptive and statistical arti- 

 cles on Newfoundland in the " Encyclopedia Britannica " and in 

 "Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia." He was the discoverer and first 

 describer of that gigantic " devil-fish " which was called after him by 

 Professor Verrill Archilenthus Hnrveyi. 



