SKETCHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS. — PIERS. XCIX 



ton and Lt. Bland's shorter ' List of Birds of N. S.' (compiled 

 by J. R. Willis) which appeared in the Smithsonian Report for 

 1858 (Wash., 1859, pp. 280-286), and which I suspect con- 

 tained many of Downs's observations. (See sketch of his life 

 by H. Piers, Trans, x., p. xii., with portrait; Chas. Hallock, 

 'First American Zoo', Nature, N. Y., vol. 1(1891?), pp, 

 130-131; Chas. Hallock, 'Andrew Downs, naturalist/ Forest 

 and Stream, N. Y., vol. 53(1899), p. 184, with portrait, p. 182; 

 Gen. Campbell Hardy, 'Reminiscences of a Nova Scotian 

 Naturalist, Andrew Downs,' Trans, xii. p. xi.) 



John Hunter Duvar. — ^Born 29th August, 1830, of 

 Scottish-English parentage; died in Prince Edward Island, (?) 

 January, 1899. Educated in Scotland. It is as a litterateur 

 and poet that Duvar has left a name in Canada. He con- 

 tributed many papers on history, literature and art to various 

 periodicals. As a poet he displayed good song quality in his 

 brief er lyrics, and in 1879 published 'The Enamoranda' and 

 'De Roberval,' a Canadian drama, in 1888. In the latter 

 years of his life he resided in Prince Edward Island, and was 

 connected with the Dominion Department of Fisheries. He 

 was one of the original members of the Institute and was 'for a 

 time a member of its council until he left Halifax for Prince 

 Edward Island about 1868, and published a couple of papers 

 in the first volume of Transactions, but had no standing as a 

 scientist. (Biographical notes, 'Songs of the Great Dominion'). 



John Brookin Young. — Born at Halifax, about 1835, 

 eldest son of George Rennie Young and grandson of John 

 Young ('Agricola'); lost in the 'City of Boston' which left 

 Halifax on 25 Jan. 1870. Was a civil engineer and practised 

 in Halifax where he lived all his life. He was an original 

 member of the Institute and was its assistant, or joint sec- 

 retary, from December, 1862 to October, 1864, but contributed 

 nothing to its Transactions, and withdrew from the society 

 sometime before 1865. 



