SKETCHES OF DECEASED PRESIDENTS. PIERS. Ixxxi 



Deceased Presidents. 



Hon. Philip Carteret Hill, K. C, D. C. L. — Born at 

 Halifax, 13th August, 1821, son of Capt. Nicholas Thomas 

 Hill, late Royal Staff Corps; died at Tunbridge Wells, England, 

 14th September, 1894. He was educated at King's College, 

 Windsor, entered the legal profession, and received the 

 degree of D. C. L. from King's College in 1858. Was mayor 

 of Halifax for three years, October 1861 to October 1864; 

 became provincial secretar}^ of Nova Scotia in 1867 and 

 again in 1874; and was premier in 1875, retiring in 1878. 

 He was one of the original members of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Natural Science, and its first president, holding 

 office from 31st December, 1862 to 26th October, 1863. 

 He attended only one meeting, and his connection with the 

 society was in all respects slight, his position as mayor at 

 the time doubtless making him a desirable nominal head at 

 the inception of the institute. He was a man of education 

 and literary, but not scientific, tastes, and possessed culti- 

 vated manners and financial means. 



John Matthew Jones, F. L. S., F. R. S. C, zoologist. — 

 Born at Frontfaith Hall, Montgomery, Wales, 7th October, 

 1828, son of Admiral Sir Charles T. Jones; died at Halifax, 

 7th October, 1888. He was educated at the Middle Temple, 

 London, for a barrister, but being possessed of independent 

 means, did not practice. About 1854 he went to New York 

 and soon after came to Halifax, where he decided to reside, 

 his relative, the Earl of Mulgrave, being then governor of 

 the province. . He spent sometime in Bermuda where his 

 researches into natural history resulted in the publication, at 

 London, 1859, of "The Naturalist in Bermuda".* At Halifax 

 he resided from October, 1860, for a number of years, at 

 '"Ashbourne," Dutch Village, (which he purchased from his 

 father-in-law, Col. W. J. Myers), and there he had a large 



*Gdnter named Sygnathus jonesi and Gerres jvnesi ( = Eucinostomus pseudogula) in his 

 honour; and Goode similarly named Belong jonesi { = Tylosurus acus). These are 

 Bermudian fishes. 



