SKETCHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS. PIERS. 



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service, the investment taking place on 23rd March, 1904. He 

 was an extensive writer on his favorite subjects of economic 

 geology and mineralogy; and besides his official reports, pub- 

 lished a work on the "Mines and Mineral Lands of Nova 

 Scotia" (1883), and various pamphlets on the minerals of the 

 province, while the Transactions of the North of England 

 Institute of Mining Engineers and of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, and various other societies, contain articles from his 

 pen, all of which did much to make known the mineral 

 resources of his native land. (See bibliography to 1894, in 

 Trans Roy. Soc. Can., xii.). In April, 1873, he joined this 

 Institute, having read before it in the previous month the first 

 paper he ever prepared, and in 1881 became a member of its 

 council and remained in it, either with or without office, till 

 his death. He served as president for two years, 18th Nov- 

 ember, 1895, to 8th November, 1897. He published in our 

 Transactions 30 papers and addresses, almost entirely on 

 geology and mineralogy. He received the degree of D. Sc. 

 from his Alma Mater, and LL. D. from Dalhousie (1892). He 

 was a fellow of the Geological Society of London (1874), an 

 original fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1882), member 

 of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and of the 

 Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. (See obituary by Doane, 

 Trans., xii, pt. 2, p. xxxi.; also Journal Mining Soc. of N. S., 

 xiv., p. 103, with portrait.) 



OTHER PROMINENT DECEASED MEMBERS.* 

 REV. JOHN AMBROSE, M. A., D. C. L., zoologist. Born 

 at St. John, N. B., 25th September 1823; son of Richard and 

 Katherine (Phillips) Ambrose; died at Sackville, N. S., 12th 

 September, 1898. He was born one month after the arrival 

 of his parents from Cove of Cork (Queenstown), Ireland. 

 Although originally from England, his ancestors had resided 

 in Ireland for generations. Was educated at Truro and at 



*These sketches are arranged chronologically according to the years in which their 

 subjects became connected with the Institute. 



