<ufticient to warrant his appointment." Prof. C. I'phan 

 Shepard predicts that " he will discharge all the duties of 

 the place in such a manner as to enrich sciemv with many 

 valuable discoveries/' while Prof. J. D. Dana " takes pleas- 

 ure in testifying to the abilitv of Mr. Hunt, believing that 

 his personal character as well as talents entitle him to high 

 regard." 



The results justified the estimate his friends had formed of 

 the ability of the youth of twenty to be the chemical and 

 mil!' 1 mentor to the old trained geologist, Sir W. 



m. Just before leaving New Haven, he wrote to the 

 same friend to whom the letters previously quoted were 

 addressed: ;i It will give me great pleasure to be enabled 

 to place my dear mother in a situation where she no longer 

 will be obliged to labor." He then rather gloats over some 

 of those who evidently had not aided him in his lofty aspira- 

 tions and adds: " This is perhaps a boyish spirit, but I am 

 a boy vet. and am not anything else" The italics are his 



own. 



He entered intoofiice in February, lx-ir. and though he did 



not writ*- a separate report lor the year IMh and 1M7, the 



influence of his mineralogical learning on the stratigraphieal 



lenciefl of his ehief is clearly noticeable in Sir \V . 



Logan's report for that vear. Ills summers were spent in 



the tidd wh- -mied from his director his first lessons in 



tigraphioal geology. There was assigned to him the in 



vesti.L'ation of the economical natural res,uives of Canada and 



irtTiiiiiiation and description of the technical processes 



fced for their ntili/ation. The first branch of study 



was pursued in the summei. and obliged him sueh 



remote and inaccessilde <\. ! Canada as could be 



reached only by canoe. Th latter branch, involving an 



immense amount of minu;- manipulation. 



Dmployment Iui the roodneeTeo f analytical 



k was not dull,: ination was stored I 



uture tlieoretical use. and the nmst comm<nplace 



into the hvpotheti. which he was 



ly build- 



