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York, and spent a year in active service as an assistant 

 army surgeon during the American Civil War, after which 

 he returned to Halifax where he practised till his death. 

 He took an active part in the establishment of the 

 Halifax Medical College in which he was professor of phys- 

 iology. On the organization of the Technological Institute, 

 Halifax, on 1st March, 1878, he became its vice-president; 

 and in 1883 he was president of the Medical Society of Nova 

 Scotia; besides which he was chairman of the Commission 

 of Public Charities, a school commissioner, and occupied 

 some other positions during his very active life. In January, 

 1875, he became a member of this Institute, and served for 

 two periods as president, 13th October, 1880, to 10th October, 

 1883, and 21st October 1885, to 10th October, 1888— the 

 first non-foundation member to be elected to that office. 

 He contributed many papers on his favourite study, botany, 

 including articles on the mosses and fungi, in the latter of 

 which, I think, he was our first investigator. Of his eighteen 

 published papers, 14 relate to botany, 3 to zoology, and 1 to 

 microscopy. His determinations were, perhaps, sometimes 

 too hastily made. He formed a large herbarium, which was, 

 unfortunately, destroyed after his death, which makes a 

 revision of his identifications impossible. (See obituary 

 by Prof. Lawson, Trans., x, p. iii., with portrait; Dr. D. A. 

 Campbell, Mar. Med. News, June, 1910, p. 186.) 



Robert Morrow, comparative anatomist and zoologist. — 

 Born at Halifax, 26th July, 1827, son of John and Mary Anne 

 (Duffus) Morrow; died at Halifax, 5th August, 1885. His 

 father came of mining stock from Co. Durham, England, 

 and about 1835 was appointed United States Consul at 

 Halifax, N. S., and later secretary of the N .S. railway. 

 He was fond of studying, in an amateurish way, geology 

 and conchology; and possessed collections of specimens 

 relating thereto. In early life Robert entered the employ 

 of the General Mining Association at the Albion coal mine, 



