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Mantuan medal for scientific eminence, and various medals 

 from the great exhibitions. (See Trans., vii., p. 313; obituary 

 by MacGregor, Trans., vii., p. 320, with portrait.) 



FREDERICK ALLISON, meteorologist. Born at Halifax, 

 1835, son of Hon. Joseph Allison, (of north of Ireland descent) ; 

 died at Halifax, 29th April, 1879. His family having moved 

 to Windsor about 1845 or 1846, he entered King's College, 

 in 1848, and received the degree of B. A. in 1851, and M. A. in 

 1865, later in life becoming one of the board of governors. He 

 spent some years in the West Indies in a mercantile capacity, 

 but afterwards returned to Halifax and later entered into the 

 life insurance business and also became agent for the Collins 

 estate. He married a daughter of Harry King of Windsor. 

 In 1848 he began making observations on temperature at 

 Windsor and on the death of Col. W. J. Myers, a private 

 observer, in 1867, Allison took up the recording and publishing 

 in the Institute's Transactions of careful meteorological 

 observations made at his residence, South Park Street, Halifax, 

 work which had previously been done by Myers. Later he 

 joined with G. T. Kingston of the Toronto observatory, in 

 urging upon the people and the government the need of a 

 general meteorological service for the Dominion. This led to 

 the establishment of such a department in 1871, and he was 

 then appointed the first chief-meteorological agent for Nova 

 Scotia, a position which he filled with ability and enthusiasm 

 until his death, taking an interest in the progress of the 

 service as he had in its inception. He was succeeded by his 

 cousin and assistant, Augustus Allison. F. Allison joined the 

 Institute in Feb., 1869, was Second Vice-President from 

 October, 1874, to October 1878, and First Vice-President from 

 then till his death. He was the chief contributor of meteor- 

 ological papers to our Transactions (11 articles), and his 

 carefully prepared annual summaries of our weather were 

 looked forward to with interest. It is much to be regretted 

 that these papers were not continued in our publications by 



