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But death won the fight, for Adam Sedgwick died in Janu- 

 ary following, eighty-eight years old. 



Though the variety and volume of his literary productions 



te his untiring industry, they by no means express the 

 full measure of his activity. For many years, as already 

 stated, after his connection with the Canadian Geological Sur- 



. he spent several months of every year in the lield, often 

 with his chief, Sir "W. Logan. Sir William had attained 

 prominence as a stratigraphies! geologist, but was not 

 learned in chemistry and mineralogy. Hunt's familiarity 

 with these sciences, therefore, supplemented Sir William's 

 deficiency, and as long as Sir William remained at the head 

 of the Survey, Hunt was rather his collaborator than his 

 subordinate, and when Sir William from old age resigned, 

 Hunt was made co-director with Sir William's successor, Dr. 

 Selwyn. 



he was not appointed head was due to Sir William's 

 knowledge of his Jack of tact and of his irritability under 

 business worries. His fitness to direct the technical opera- 

 tions of the Survey was beyond <iuestion, inasmuch as for 

 twentv had been an active worker, and for part of 



:ime the most influential member of the stall'; but no one 

 kne than Sir William how intolerant of contradiction 



he was, and how impolitic were his comments on politic.il 



rs upon whose good will the votes for the supp<>i 

 the Survey depended li rion, therefore, not to recom- 



1 Hunt as business director was an act of kindness to his 

 old colleague. 



I'lmirj his connection with the Sur\ - neinist and 



mineralogist he had to investigate ollicially many technical 



Mibodiod in the regular annual 



reports in the general summary up to that date, published in 



1863, and in special reports. Tin- important of the 



r class was "On the (J-ld Mi la. and the 



Working Them in 1808," "On Petroleum in 



Gaspe* in 1865," "<> ,ld Herons of I 



1866," and of Hastings, <>nt., in isr,;. and of Nova Scotia in 



