3422 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Q. When it was completed, did you take out any copyright ? A. 

 No. 



Q. When it was completed, what was done with it ! A. The edition 

 remained at the printer's office ; some few copies were, however, taken 

 out of his hands ; I, for example, took six copies out, under instruc- 

 tions to send them up to the Waverly Hotel ; and that is all I know- 

 about it. 



Q. You sent them to the Waverly Hotel ? A. Yes. 



Q. You took out six copies ! A. Yes. 



Q. And the rest, you say, are in the printer's hands ? A. No ; I think 

 that nearly the whole of them are there, but some are in my possession. 



Q. Was ''confidential" suggested by you, or directly by the officer of 

 the government who had charge of it ? A. It was directed to be placed 

 there by the officer of the government. 



Q. So that you then had no right to let any one see it without his 

 consent ? A. I bad no right to do so. 



Q. You were asked by Mr. Thomson, I think, how long you had made 

 a specialty of sea fish 'I A. Pardon me, not of sea-fish, but of ocean 

 physics. 



Q. Then you have never made of sea-fish a specialty ? A. Certainly 

 not. 



Q. But you have of ocean physics ? A. 'Yes. 



Q. That relates to the animal life of the ocean ? A. No ; but it re- 

 lates to the ocean and its temperature, and, for instance, to winds and 

 ice. 



Q. And the formation of the bottom of the sea ? A. O, that would 

 come in, certainly. Every material thing that affects the sea is included 

 under that head. 



Q. You have not made a special subject of the fisheries ? A. No. 



Q. Then as you are not particularly acquainted with the fisheries r 

 perhaps your attention has been given for many years past to chemistry 

 and geology and mining ! A. Yes ; by profession, I am a geologist. 



Q. We are familiar with your name in connection with the gold mines 

 of Nova Scotia. A. Yes. 



Q. I believe that when gold-mine stock was put on the market at 

 Boston you presented a certificate touching it ? A. No ; never. 



Q. Did you never give such a certificate ? A. No. 



Q. You are confident of that ? A. Quite. 



Q. You issued two or three books about this matter? A. No ; I did 

 not. 



Q. They appeared in your name? A. I have nothing to do with thatf 

 they are documents belonging to the government. 



Q. We have records of the different gold districts published as late 

 as 1869, 1870, and 1872, by Henry Youle Hind, M. A. A. If you will 

 kindly turn over a page you will see that these are official documents 

 addressed to the government of Nova Scotia. 



Q. This is a record of the Sherbrooke gold district together with a 

 paper on the gneisses of Nova Scotia ? A. Yes. 



Q. And a paper on the gold-mining district of Nova Scotia, read before 

 the Geological Society of London and the Society of Arts in London ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Were they first read there, and then incorporated into reports ? 

 A. They only form part of a report. They were first read before the 

 Geological Society of London, and discussed, and also before the Society 

 of Arts, and discussed there ; and then they were introduced in a report. 



Q. These were material out of which you form a part of your report f 



