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and Chemistry Schools and develojJ them into the present 

 Faculty of Applied Science with its numerous depart- 

 meets, its full staff of instructors and excellent equipment. 



Sir William Dawson, furthermore, never hesitated, if 

 funds were not forthcoming in sufficient amount for those 

 purposes, to subscribe large sums out of his own limited 

 private means, and he was also the continual helper 

 of needy students desiring to avail themselves of the 

 University's teaching. 



The Peter Eedpath Museum may be said to owe its 

 existence to his untiring labors and to the very consider- 

 able amounts of money which he spent upon its collection. 



Sir William's attainments and the value of his contri- 

 butions to science were widely recognized, and he was 

 elected an lionorary or corresponding member of many 

 learned societies on both sides of the Atlantic. He was 

 made a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 

 1854 and the Royal Society in 1862. He was the first 

 President of the Eoyal Society of Canada, and has occu- 

 pied the same position in the Geological Society of 

 America and in both the British and American Associa- 

 tions for the Advancement of Science. He was made 

 a C.M.G. in 1883 and a Knight Bachelor in the following 

 year. 



After a long life of continuous labor. Sir William's 

 health in 1893 became seriously impaired, and it became 

 necessary for him to lay aside his work for a time and go 

 abroad. Failing to recover his strength, however, he 

 resigned his position as Principal in June, 1893, and 

 retired from active work. During the later years of his 

 life his strength gradually ebbed away, and what little 

 work he could undertake consisted in arranging his 

 collections and working up some unfinished papers. 

 Several of these were published in 1894 and 1895, but the 

 years of quiet labor in his favorite pursuits to which he 

 looked forward at this time were cut short by a series of 



