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have had in the society. (See Acadian Recorder, Hfx., 24th 

 February, 1903). 



REV. DAVID HONEYMAN, D. C. L., F. G. S., F. R. S. C., 

 geologist. Born at Corbie Hill, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1817; 

 died at Halifax, 17th October, 1889. Educated at Dundee 

 High School and the University of St. Andrews, where he 

 devoted himself to the study of oriental languages and 

 natural science. In 1836 he entered the United Secession 

 Theological Hall, was licensed in 1841, and about 1846 came 

 to Nova Scotia where he became professor of Hebrew in the 

 Free Church College, Halifax, but resigned not long after. He 

 subsequently took charge of the Presbyterian church at 

 Antigonish, but as a preacher was not successful. All his 

 spare time was given to the study of the geology of that 

 district, the complicated formations of Arisaig having his 

 special attention. After being a few years pastor at Antigon- 

 ish, he resigned, although continuing to reside there until 

 about 1868, and thereafter devoted himself to scientific work. 

 He published his first paper, on the fossiliferous rocks of 

 Arisaig, in the Transactions of the N. S. Literary and Scien- 

 tific Society for 1859. He had charge of the Nova Scotian 

 exhibits at the London International Exhibition of 1882, at 

 the Dublin Exhibition of 1865, the Paris Exhibition of 1867, 

 the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876, and the London Fisheries 

 Exhibition of 1883. For a short while in 1869 he was 

 employed in Nova Scotia by the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 for which he was fitted as a geologist, but had had no training 

 as a topographer and draughtsman. J. R. Willis and he had, 

 in 1865, presented a memorial to the government strongly 

 advocating the establishment of a provincial museum, a 

 matter which had come up four years previously, and the two 

 memorialists became candidates for the position of curator. 

 As a result of the agitation in various quarters, the Provincial 

 Museum of Nova Scotia was founded about October, 1868, 

 and Honeyman was placed in charge (at first, I believe, with- 



