XCIV PROCEEDINGS. 



1863, as he then signed the only minutes he wrote, as secretary- 

 pro tempore, and was succeeded by W. Gossip. He finally with- 

 drew from the society about 1869. The Transactions contain 

 but one paper by him, on the occurrence of Littorina littorea 

 on the coast of Nova Scotia (186.3), and I fear that for some 

 reason entire harmony could not have existed between him 

 and the society. Vol. VII however contains a full account of 

 his life, his writings, and a reprint of his rare list of Nova 

 Scotian shells, a memorial to which I think he was justly 

 entitled. (See Trans, vii., pp. 404-428.) 



Henry How, D. C. L., chemist, mineralogist and botanist. 

 — Born at London, Eng., 11th July 1828, (son of Thomas 

 How, whose wife was a Molyneux, whose ancestors had served 

 in the old fort at Annapolis, N. S.); died at Windsor, N. S., 

 Sunday, 28th September, 1879. He attended a private 

 school in Beaconsfield and then studied chemistrj- at the 

 Royal College of Chemistry, obtaining therefrom a certificate 

 of proficienc5^ Prof. Hoffman, of that college^ recommended 

 him as assistant to the late Rt. Hon. Lord Playfair, F. R. S., 

 then professor of chemistry at the College for Civil Engineers 

 at Putney. His first paper, an analytical one, was read 

 before the Chemical Society of London, and published in its 

 Journal in 1846. He held his as.si.stant professorship at 

 Putney until he was appointed analytical chemist to the 

 British Admiralty Steam Coal Enquiry, and in 1848-49 were 

 published, as a British blue-book, his 'Analyses of Coals of 

 Great Britain' with reports by Sir H. De la Beche and Dr. 

 Lyon Plaj'fair. Then he became assistant to Prof. Thomas 

 Anderson of Edinburgh University, whom he accompanied 

 in 1852 to Glasgow on the latter's appointment as Regius 

 Professor of Chemistry in the L'niversity there, and was there 

 for two j^ears. 



He came to Nova Scotia in 1854, being appointed fellow 

 and professor of chemistry and natural history at King's 

 College, Windsor, and about 1876. also vice-president of the 



