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more favourable finding than ■would otlle^^Yise have 

 been obtained. Lord Alverstone (now Lord Chief 

 Justice of England) writing of him in this connection, 

 says : " It is not possible to overrate the services 

 which Dr. Dawson rendered us in the Behring sea 

 arbitration. I consulted him throughout on many 

 questions of difficulty and never found his judgment 

 to fail, and he was one of the most unselfish and 

 charming characters that I ever met. I consider it a 

 great pleasure to have knowm him." Li recognition 

 of his services on the arbitration, Dr. Dawson was 

 made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and 

 St. George (C.M.G.). 



He received the degree of D.Sc. from Princeton in 

 1877, and that of LL.D. from Queen's University in 

 1890, from McGill University in 1891, and froni 

 Toronto University some years later. In 1891, he 

 was awarded the Bigsby gold medal by the 

 Geological Society for his services in the cause 

 of geology, and was also elected a Fellow of the 

 Eoyal Society. In 1893, he was elected President of 

 the Eoyal Society of Canada, and in 1897 was Presi- 

 dent of the geological section of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science at the Toronto 

 meeting. In 1897, he was awarded the gold medal 

 of the Royal Geographical Society. Last year, he 

 was President of the Geological Society of America, 

 and gave his retiring address at the Albany meeting 

 in December, choosing as his subject, " The Geologi- 

 cal Pecord of the Pocky Mountain Region in Canada." 

 This address was published as a bulletin of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America, and will be prized as giving 

 a summing up of his latest views on some of the 

 problems connected with the complex geology of the 



