190 Obituary— Dr. G. M. Damon. 



exhibiting a portion of tbe stem witli fragmentary brachial 

 extensions, the whole organism covering a space of nearly three 

 inches in length. My colleague, Dr. F. A. Bather, has kindly 

 examined the specimen, but without any satisfactory result, on 

 account of its poor preservation; he is, however, inclined to regard it 

 as of Palfeozoic age. Further efforts should now be made to obtain 

 more suitable fossils from these interesting limestones of the Malay 

 Peninsula, so that their geological age may be finally determined. 



R. BuLLEN jSTewton. 

 British Museum (Natural History). 

 Jfarch 19, 1901. 



OBITTJJ^I^^". 



DR. GEORGE MERCER DAWSON, 



C.M.a, LL.D., Assoc. R.S.M., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.R.S. Canada, 

 Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



Born August 2, 1849. Died March 2, 1901. 



This eminent geologist, whose portrait and life we published in 

 the Geological Magazine for May, 1897, pp. 193-195, died at 

 Ottawa, after an illness of only two days, at the early age of 

 51 years, sincerely regretted by a large circle of friends. 



Dr. Dawson was the son of Sir William Dawson, F.R.S., for many 

 years Principal of McGill College, Montreal ; and was, since 1875, 

 one of the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada, of which he 

 speedily became Assistant-Director, and in 1894 Director. He was 

 educated at McGill College, Montreal, and at the Royal School of 

 Mines, London. Here he obtained the Duke of Cornwall's Scholar- 

 ship, and the Edward Forbes medal and prize. He was, in 1873, 

 on the North American Boundary Commission. On the Geological 

 Survey he did much personal work in British Columbia and the 

 North- West Territory, covering in his mapping many thousand miles 

 of area. Dr. Dawson was one of the Commissioners for the Behring 

 Sea Arbitration, spending the Summer of 1892 inquiring into the 

 conditions and facts of seal-life, and his services were of the greatest 

 value. He received the thanks of the Governor-General-in-Council, 

 and was made a C.M.G. He received the Bigsby Gold Medal from 

 the Geological Society in 1891, and in 1890 the degree of LL.D, 

 from Queen's University and from McGill University in 1891. In 

 1897 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society for his work as a whole. 



Canada may well be proud of Dr. G. M. Dawson as one of her 

 most brilliant men of science, whose loss she will long deplore, nor 

 will he fail to be remembered in this country also as a son of that 

 great Motherland whose name can never die. 



