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in his intercourse with them, and express deep sym- 

 pathy with his relatives in their affliction. 



DR. C. E. BARLOW. 



The Natural History of Montreal records the pro- 

 found sorrow which it felt when the startling news 

 reached the city of the fact that Dr. C. E. Barlow, one of 

 its most distinguished members, along with his wife, 

 perished by the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, on 

 the 29th day of May, 1914. Dr. Barlow was a native of 

 Montreal, where he was born 17th June, 1861, and early 

 entered the service of the Geological Survey of Canada. 

 He was specially expert as a mineralogist,- and the 

 numerous reports which he drew up of the geological 

 resources of the Dominion are of outstanding value. 

 Dr. Barlow contributed many scientific papers of im- 

 portance to the transactions of the Natural History So- 

 ciety. He was one of the Society's Somerville lecturers, 

 and was always ready to further* its interests by speech 

 and pen when called upon to help in the prosecution of 

 its work. Not this Society alone but also the entire 

 community in which he was known mourn the tragedy 

 by which a life of such great promise as his was pre- 

 maturely cut off. The Society begs to tender its warm- 

 est sympathy to the members of his family on the sad 

 calamity. 



His father, Robert Barlow, under whom he received 

 his early training, had been engaged in the offices of the 

 Ordnance Survey, London. Coming under the influence 

 of Principal Dawson and Dr. Harrington while at col- 

 lege, Charles took up the subject of Natural Science and 

 especially Geology, in which he graduated with honours. 

 The Temiskaming region was the chief scene of his ex- 

 plorations and he became the recognized authority on 

 nickel, copper, silver, cobalt, iron, gold and other ore 

 deposits in the territory north of the great lakes. 



