X OBITUARIES. 



and he was olected a member of the first, couneil. Regarding 

 the foun(hition of the ^ociety, he wrote me a few years ago: 

 "I remember well the friendliness and hearty cooperation 

 of our efforts to set forward the development of local know- 

 ledge of the natural history and re^sourcos of the province. 

 We were a band of enthusiastic lovers of nature — hunters 

 and woodsmen, zoologists and geologists, botanists and 

 fishermen, historians and antiquarians, each zealous of im- 

 provement in his own particular sphere of knowledge or 

 science." 



At the first ordinary meeting, held 19th Jan. 1863, he 

 read the second paper communicated to the new society, 

 on "Nocturnal Life of Animals in the Forest/' which gives a 

 delightful account of our forest life at night. Then followed 

 each year other papers by him, which are listed at the end. 

 He served as second vice-president from Oct. 1863 to Oct. 

 1864, and then was first vice-president for three years, till 

 Oct. 1867, he having by that time departed from the province. 



On 2nd June, 1863, there were published in London by 

 Day & Son, two large finely-colored lithographs, 11 3^ x 16 

 inches, after his watercolour paintings of "The Forest Road: 

 Summer and Winter," the former a camping scene, the 

 latter with a horse-sled in the foreground. They are still 

 among the best published representations of our woodland 

 scenery, and are scarce. 



He was caribou-shooting and salmon-fishing in New- 

 foundland in the summer of 1863, and returned to Halifax in 

 July. He was an able artist and keenly interested in art, and 

 in Nov. of that j^ear, he, Capt. Lyttleton (a fine artist) and 

 Capt. W. Chearnley brought together a picture exhibition in 

 the drill-room at Halifax, at which he showed his two beau- 

 tiful watercolours beforementioned, which had just been 

 engraved in London, and other sketches, principally relating 

 to moose-hunting. It may be mentioned that he considered 

 Lyttleton our best local artist of that period. 



In Aug. 1866 he, with an Indian, Glode, journeyed by canoe 

 to Tobiaduc Brook, several miles westward of Lake Rossignol, 

 Queens Co.,* and made a careful investigation of beaver houses 

 there, from which he constructed two beautiful models, 



* From an expression in a lecture of Gen. Hardy, one is led to believe that his last night 

 in our woods was when they camped at the outlet of Lake Rossignol on this expedition. 



