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church, and is buried at St. John's cemetery. The very sad 

 death of his son in January, 1870. will be recalled by many. 

 Col. Myers was one of the original members of the Institute, 

 and afterwards served on its council. He was a most 

 enthusiastic student of meteorology, kept a very careful 

 record of the weather at Halifax, as Henry Poole was doing 

 elsewhere in the province, and I think his papers in our 

 Transactions are the earliest full and systematic ones pub- 

 lished here, although Poole, and possibly Hensley of Windsor, 

 were in the field before him. This led to his election as a fellow 

 of the Royal Meteorological Society. He published in our 

 journal, notes on the weather at Halifax for four years, from 

 1863 to 1866. His work was then taken up by Frederick 

 Allison in 1867, and the Dominion meteorological service was 

 ultimately established in 1871. 



THOMAS BELT, geologist and naturalist. Born in England. 

 1832; died at Denver, Colorado, 1878. Made geological 

 investigations in the Australian gold-diggings from 1852 to 

 1862; came to Nova Scotia as superintendent of the N. S. 

 Gold Company's mines in 1862, and returned to England 

 (Newcastle-on-Tyne) in 1863 or 1864; conducted the gold- 

 mining operations of the Chontales company, Nicaragua, 

 from 1868 to 1872. Elected a fellow of the Geological Society 

 in 1866. He published works which chiefly relate to the 

 glacial period (for which some of his observations were made 

 in this province), and also his popular classic, 'The Naturalist 

 in Nicaragua' (1874), a work which contains much informa- 

 tion on protective mimicry, plant fertilization, sexual selec- 

 tion, etc., and written in a fine style. He was one of the 

 original members of the Institute, was elected to the first and 

 second council, and was a member until his death. He con- 

 tributed four papers to the Transactions, his list of butter- 

 flies observed about Halifax, being the first such catalogue to 

 be published. (See Diet, of Nat. Biog., iv., p. 204; also Trans 

 N. S. I. N. S., v., p. 4.) 



