SKETCHES OF DECEASED MEMBERS. — PIERS. CV 



his successors. (See Trans., v., p. 5; Ann. Report. Meteor. 

 Service of Canada, for 1879, p. v.) 



Augustus Allison, meteorologist. — Born at Halifax, 

 19 April, 1837, son of Jonathan Crane Allison of the firm of 

 Fairbanks and Allison; died at Halifax, 11th January, 1904. 

 He had been assistant to his second cousin, Frederick Allison, 

 and on the latter's death in April, 1879, continued the meteor- 

 ological observations until he was regularly appointed chief 

 meteorologcal agent for Nova Scotia in August following, 

 retaining that position till his death when he was succeeded by 

 F. P. Ronnan. In business Mr. Allison was connected with 

 the Confederation Life Association. He married Miss Cevilla 

 Hill. He joined the Institute on the same date as his cousin, 

 15th February, 1869, but contributed but one paper to its 

 Transactions (Meteorological Register for 1880), and lacked 

 the enthusiasm in the work which characterized his relative. 



Henry Youlb Hind, M. A., D. C. L., F. R. G. S., geol- 

 ogist and explorer. — Born at Nottingham, England, 1st 

 June, 1823; died at Windsor, N. S., 9th August, 1908. Dr. 

 Hind was a geologist with a large and well-deserved reputation, 

 but as his connection with this Institute was but very slight, 

 the present notice will be brief. He was educated at Leipsic 

 and Cambridge, came to Canada in 1846, and two years 

 later became a master in the Provincial Normal School, 

 Toronto, and subsequently professor of chemistry and geol- 

 ogy in Trinity College in the same place until 1864. In 1857 he 

 became geologist to the first Red River expedition, and next 

 year director of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan exploring 

 expedition, and in 1861 made explorations in the regions 

 about Labrador, while in 1864 he made a preliminary geolo- 

 gical survey of New Brunswick. In 1866 he took up his 

 residence in Windsor, where he died. His reports on the 

 gold districts of Nova Scotia are well-known and valuable, 

 and he contributed to the publications of the Royal Geograph- 

 ical Society, the Geological Society, Society of Arts, and many 



