PROCEEDINGS. 



Deceased Members. 



During the past year we suffered the loss of two members 

 who have passed from this life. 



GEORGE UFHAM HAY, Ph. B., M. A., D. Sc., F. R. S. C., 

 corresponding member of this society, was born at Norton, 

 N. B., June 18th, 1843. Starting as a journalist he became 

 an educationist and was a power for advancement in our 

 sister province. With Dr. A. H. MacKay, he established the 

 Educational Review, which he managed and edited; and 

 latterly he published several historical works. It was as a 

 botanist that we knew him. He was a president of the Natural 

 History Society, St. John, president of the Botanical Club of 

 Canada, and member of the New England Botanical Club: 

 In 1904 he was president of Section IV of the Royal Society of 

 Canada. In 1902 he was elected a corresponding member of this 

 Institute. His contributions to botany were many and varied 

 and are found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, Bulletin of the Natural History Society, N. B., and 

 Educational Review. He also contributed papers on educa- 

 tion and natural science to the Proceedings of the Dominion 

 Education Association, Educational Institute of N. B., and 

 Educational Review. 



JAMES GORDON MACGREGOR, M. A., D. Sc., LL. D., F. R. 

 S., F. R. S. C., F. R. S. E., was a native of Halifax, N. S., 

 being born March 31st, 1852. Educated here he obtained his 

 B. A. at Dalhousie University in 1871 and M. A. in 1874. 

 From hence he proceeded to Edinburgh University and to 

 Leipzic and obtained the D. Sc. degree from London Uni- 

 versity in 1876. In the same year he became lecturer on phy- 

 sics at Dalhousie, changing to a. like position at Clifton College, 

 England, a year later. Coming back to Dalhousie University 

 to take the Munro professorship of physics in 1879, he re- 

 mained there until 1901 when he left to become professor of 

 natural philosophy in Edinburgh University, succeeding his 



