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the Hudson Bay Company to trace the west cost of Boothia, and, 
from information obtained from the Esquimaux, he succeeded then 
in placing beyond all doubt the fact that Franklin and his men had 
perished from exposure and hunger. On this occasion he pur-— 
chased from the natives a number of the relics of the ill-fated party. 
Returning to London in the early part ef 1855, he found that he . 
was entitled to £10,000, which the Government had offered for the 
first news of Franklin, a fact unknown to him while conducting the 
Expedition. It should be stated here that he shared this sum with 
his men, and again resumed his position in the Hudson’s Bay ser- 
vice. ‘This, however, he left as soon as his pension could be se- 
cured, and for some years he resided here and in Toronto. It was 
during this period that he was a member of this Association. In 
1860 he married a daughter ot Captain Thompson, of Toronto, who 
survives him. In the same year Dr. Rae took the land part of a 
survey of a contemplated telegraph line to America from Britain via 
the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Greenland was next visited, and 
in 1864 he took a leading part in a telegraph survey from Winnipeg 
across the prairies and through the Rocky Mountains. Subse- 
quently some hundreds of miles of the dangerous parts of Fraser 
River were run down in small dug-out canoes without a guide, a 
most perilous undertaking, but successfully accomplished. He saw 
much in his time of unknown parts, covering some 1800 miles of 
previously unexplored ground. He settled permanently in London 
about 1866. His reports to the Royal Geographical Society are 
very valuable. He was a frequent and welcome attendant at the 
meetings of that Society, where his record of travel, his genial man- 
ner and graphic powers of description were often in request. 
Our late honorary member, Dr. Rae, who has gone to his rest, 
was a grand old man. His name recalls the age of romance in 
Arctic exploration, when attempting to reach the North Pole or 
searching for the northern passage was a far more hazardous opera- 
tion than it is to-day. For nearly half a century Rae’s name had 
been connected with the moving tale of the long search for Sir John 
Franklin. It was to Rae that the English public were indebted for 
what they came to know of the fate of Franklin and his party. 
Dr. Rae was a man of fine, resolute courage, of tender sympa- 
thy, of manly and heroic persistence. The modern world knew lit- 
