OBITUARY NOTICE 



OF 



THOMAS STHRRY HUNT. 



BY JAMES DOUGLAS. 

 (Read be fort the American Philosophical Society, April /. 1808.) 



AII 1011*1 the most versatile men of science, of the present 

 generation, must be classed Thomas Sterry Hunt. 



He was prominent as a chemist nearly half a century ;i'_r>. 

 not only in the field of original investigation, but as one of 

 the first interpreters of the new chemistry then being taught 

 by Gerhardt, and he not only grew with the growth of his 

 favorite science up to the date of his death, but helped t<> 

 enlarge its scope, to expand its relations, and place it on a 

 new and more consistent basis. 



As a geologist his work was almost confined to the crystal 

 line and ]>ala-<>/<>; not only because his practice in the 



field under Sir William Logan, in the Canadian Geological 

 Survey, was among the older rocks, but because the investi- 

 gation of their origin, decay and metamorphosis in its fullest 

 sense, fell within the scope of his studie themist, and 



gave wider range to his faculties as a theorist. l-'or Hunt, 

 besides being an exact student ot natm :iid, 



\ was possessed of yivid imagination. lie 

 .-lieinieal knowledge to hear on tin; geological 

 problems which d themselves to him in most j 



-ion. while trying to conceive of the genesis "I 

 the crystalline rocks. And lie was of necessity led on from 

 the conce the primal conditions f mr own ;jlole t< 



speculations on t ! the n< 



!>uildiii'_ r ot worlds in inteistellar space. 



'Mil. us. KM . MI \i'i:i M \ "I.UMK. 



