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Newfoundland dialect. Princeton conferred on him the 

 degree of D. D. (about 1870), and Dalhousie that of L L. D. 

 (1896). In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society 

 of Canada. (See obituary by E. Gilpin, Trans, ix., p. xcv., 

 with portrait; Morgan's Canadian Men and Women of the 

 Time, 1898). 



JOHN JAMES Fox. Born at Salisbury, England, 1818; 

 died at Montreal, September, 1899. He studied medicme, 

 but preferring a sea-faring life, spent many adventurous years 

 in Egypt, Greece, the West Indies and South America. In 

 1852 he was appointed by the British Government comptroller 

 of customs and navigation laws at the Magdalen Islands, a 

 position which he held for thirty years, and became familiarly 

 known as the 'governor' of those islands. For services to 

 ship-wrecked mariners, the United States President presented 

 to him a watch valued at $ 1,000. His great knowledge of the 

 fisheries made him a valuable witness before the Halifax 

 fisheries commission of 1877. After retiring about 1882 he 

 moved to Halifax, where he resided for some years, and finally 

 went to Montreal in about 1890. He was characterized by 

 modesty, bravery and humanity. An anecdote is told of how 

 he amputated a man's leg, when proper surgical aid wa& 

 absent. He joined the Institute in May, 1882, was for six 

 years a member of its council (October, 1884 to October 1890), 

 seldom missed a meeting, and continued his membership till 

 his death. One paper from his pen appeared in the Trans- 

 actions, dealing with the currents of the Gulf of St. Lawrence 

 and their danger to navigation (vol.vi., p. 302.) (See obituaries, 

 Trans., x., p. xxxvi., [A. McKay], and in Halifax Herald, 

 15th September. 1899). 



ARTHUR PETERS SILVER, sportsman-naturalist. Born 

 at Halifax, 9th January, 1851, son of Wm. C. Silver (q. v.); 

 died at same place, 14th February, 1908. Was educated at 

 the Halifax Grammar School, Dalhousie College, and King's 



