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winkworthite. The total number of new minerals found by him 

 was said to have been fourteen. He was also a good botanist 

 and prepared an herbarium of Nova Scotian plants for the 

 Paris exhibition of 1867, which is now in the Provincial 

 Museum. 'Every one who had come in contact with Dr. How,' 

 says the King's College Record (Oct. 1879), had been struck 

 with his honesty of purpose, his great love of science, his varied 

 literary taste. From the moment he landed in this country, 

 fresh from the wonderful laboratories of Europe and glowing 

 with enthusiasm for the prosecution of his favorite studies, he 

 had lived a life of obscurity, almost of seculsion. A few there 

 were, and only a few, who had come to appreciate his talent 

 as an analyst, his great learning as a chemist, his industry in 

 fields of original research.' I may add that the last sentence is 

 true as regards this province alone, for abroad his great 

 ability was recognized fully. I think I am right in saying 

 that he was the first notable chemist we had; he was most 

 likely the best analytical chemist we have had. He was a. 

 successful experimenter and his researches, I understand, 

 resulted in the discovery of certain acids, etc. Billings 

 named in his honor, Phillipsia howi, one of the last represen- 

 tatives of the trilobites, discovered by How at Kennetcook, 

 N. S., (Can. Naturalist, viii., 209); and Dawson in the pre- 

 face to his Acadian Geology, and Dana in that to his Miner- 

 ologj^ acknowledge indebtedness to him for valuable contrib- 

 utions. Furthermore he was a fine German, French and Latin 

 scholar. 



He was an original member of our Institute and contributed 

 to its Transactions 10 papers (14 if we count the separate 

 parts of one of them), almost entirely on mineralogy 

 and botan3^ Had he lived in Halifax, he would certainly 

 have become a president of the society which he assisted so 

 much by his labours otherwise. He was an honorary D. C. L. 

 of King's College (1861), corresponding member of the New 

 York Lyceum of Natural History and of the Natural History 



