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private museum which, in 1866, contained seven or eight 

 thousand specimens. He was an enthusiastic collector 

 and gave generously to various museums. The Nova Scotian 

 fisheries exhibit of the International Exhibition at London, 

 1862, was brought together under his management. He 

 was an original member of the Institute of Natural Science 

 and one of those who took the most active part in its estab- 

 lishment in December, 1862; he presided at the inaugural 

 meeting, and the society owes a vast debt of gratitude to 

 him for his enthusiastic labours in its behalf. He was its 

 first vice-president, and its second president, serving in the 

 latter capacity for ten years, 26th October, 1863, to 8th 

 October, 1873, the longest presidential term we have had. 

 His studies related chiefly to zoology, more particularly 

 fishes, reptiles, and mollusca, of all of which he left lists, as 

 well as birds, lepidoptera, and marine invertebrates, and the 

 name by which he was jocosely referred to, "Bug Jones," 

 was well known to the last generation. A pretty conceit 

 on his gravestone represents a butterfly above a caterpillar 

 crawling on a twig. His publications number about twenty- 

 three items, 15 of which appeared in our Transactions; and 

 next to Dr. J. B. Gilpin (24 items) he was the most prolific 

 writer the Institute has had on zoological subjects. He was 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (1st December, 

 1859 till about 1878), and an original Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of Canada, as well as a member of the Entomological 

 Society of Canada, and corresponding-member of the Natural 

 History Society of New Brunswick, of the New Orleans 

 Academy of Science, and of the Frankfurt Senckenbergische 

 Naturforschende Gesellschaft. (See sketch of life, by H. 

 Piers, Trans., x, p. Ixxx, with portrait; List of Fellows of 

 Linnean Society.) 



JOHN BERNARD GILPIN, M. A., M. D., M. R. S. C., 

 F. R. S. C., zoologist and ethnologist. Born at Newport, 

 Rhode Island, 4th September, 1810, son of J. B. Gilpin, 



