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Natural Science of McGill University, he was also interest- 

 ed in the scientific work of this Society, and encouraged 

 those who were prosecuting original research in the do- 

 main of nature. The Society records its profound sym- 

 pathy with Mrs. Burland and the other members of his 

 family in the acute bereavement which has befallen 

 them ; but feels satisfaction, as they doubtless also do, in 

 the fact that at the time of his decease he was busily 

 engaged in the benevolent and patriotic task of provid- 

 ing for the care of sufferers in the dreadful conflict in 

 which the British Empire is struggling. 



He was son of the late George Burland, and was 

 born in Montreal, March 19th, 1861. After his father's 

 death he became President and Manager of the British- 

 American Note Company. He was President of the 

 Montreal Board of Trade in 1911, a Life Governor of 

 the Montreal General Hospital, also of the Hospital for 

 the Insane and the "Western Hospital. He founded the 

 Royal Edward Tuberculosis Institute. He commanded 

 the 6th Fusiliers in 1892 ; and, in 1897, took part in the 

 late Queen Victoria's Jubilee. He had undertaken the 

 charge of Red Cross arrangements and died suddenly 

 at his post in England. 



MR. JOHN HARPER. 



The Natural History Society of Montreal would place 

 on record its sense of the heavy loss it has sustained in 

 the death, on August 2nd, 1914, of Mr. John Harper, one 

 of its oldest and most honoured members, who occupied 

 for several years the responsible position of Chairman 

 of the Council of the Society, the duties of which he dis- 

 charged with singular fidelity and zeal. Mr. Harper was 

 specially interested in Botany, his work as a scientific 

 drug manufacturer involving necessarily a large 

 acquaintance with plant products. Mr. Harper was 

 born at Hurstbourne, Hampshire, England, October 



