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with sketch, and samples of cuttings, foodsticks and bedding, 

 one of which is in the Provincial Museum, Halifax, and the 

 other he presented to the Zoological Society of London. The 

 Halifax model was shown at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 

 in 1867, and attracted marked attention. In Dec. 1866, he 

 read an able paper on the Beaver in Nova Scotia. (See 

 Trans. N. S. Inst. Nat. Sc, vol. 2, pt. 1. pp. 17-25; also 

 "Forest Life in Acadie," 1869, p. 172). From time to time 

 he also contributed sporting sketches to "The Field" and 

 "Land and Water." 



For five and a half years he had been Inspector of Warlike 

 Stores and Firemaster at Halifax, and subsequently in 1866 

 and 1867 was Inspecting Officer of the Nova Scotian Militia 

 Artillery. In August, 1867, to the great regret of all who 

 knew him, he finally left Halifax to return to England, at 

 the age of thirty-six, after fifteen and a half years' residence 

 here. He took with him many trophies of the chase, mounted 

 by Andrew Downs. He always considered his sojourn here 

 as the most eventful and pleasant period in his life, and his 

 mind never ceased to dwell upon the impressions he had then 

 gained. 



W^ith his heart still deep in our pine forests, he published 

 in 1869 at New York, his most familiar work, and the one in 

 which he is at his very best, "Forest Life in Acadie: Sketches 

 of Sport and Natural History in the Lower Provinces of the 

 Canadian Dominion," with twelve plates, all but one from 

 his pencil, but not done justice to by the engraver. In this 

 delightful volume his style leaves nothing to be desired, for 

 it is a fine literary work apart from its other qualities. It still 

 must rank as the best-written book that has yet appeared 

 on woodland sport in Nova Scotia, and has a charm about 

 it which is derived from the fine character and talents of 

 its author. 



The volume contains sketches of the country, of the 

 forests and streams, of the moose and caribou and the hunting 

 of them; careful accounts of the beaver, otter, and other 

 important animals, of the fish and fishing, camping, the 

 progress of the seasons, and other miscellaneous valuable 

 observations on natural history, the nocturnal life of animals 

 in our forest, etc. There is an interesting account of a moose 

 hunt with old Joe Cope, about Big Indian Lake between the 

 Head of St. Margaret's Bay and Mount Uniacke, also of a 



