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lie was proposed as an associate member, as he was not then 

 living in Halifax. His uncle, then vice-president, was in the 

 chair. He was elected April llth, 1873, and became a mem- 

 ber on his removal to Halifax in 1879. He was elected a 

 member of council in 1881, and was re-elected at each annual 

 meeting since that date. In 1894-5 he was vice-president, 

 and in 1895-6 and 1896-7 he held the office of president. For 

 twenty-five years, therefore, he was prominent in the manage- 

 ment of the affairs of the Institute, while the period of his 

 membership extended over thirty-four years. The value of 

 his services to the society can be appreciated best by those 

 members who were intimately associated with him in scien- 

 tific work. 



During his membership he communicated to the Institute 

 twenty-six papers principally in the department of geology 

 and mineralogy. While his work as published in our trans- 

 actions covers a large field and contributes most valuable 

 information regarding the mineral resources of the province, 

 it by no means includes all the publications from his pen. He 

 was the author of a popular work on the " Mines and Mineral 

 Lands of Nova Scotia " published in 1883, and of able con- 

 tributions to the transactions of several other societies includ- 

 ing the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers. 

 His exhaustive reports to the government of Nova Scotia 

 attest the ability of the man in the work for which he was 

 chosen. He was one of the original members of the Hoyal 

 Society of Canada, was elected a fellow of the Geological 

 Society of London, England, March llth, 1874, and was a 

 member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and 

 the Canadian ' Society of Civil Engineers. In the latter 

 society he was a member of council in 1889. 



The degree of D. Sc. was conferred upon him by King's 

 College, and that of LL. D. by Dalhousie University. In the 

 latter he was a member of the faculty of pure and applied 

 science, and lecturer on coal mining. 



The^news of his death was received with general regret in 

 his native city; in the province where through his life work 



