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member of the international juries at Paris in 1855 and 1867 
and at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. He 
was an officer of the French order of the Legion of Honor 
and of the [talian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. 
In 1878, Dr. Hunt retired from public professional life 
and devoted himself mainly to the perfecting of his more 
important works in new editions and to the preparation of 
his “Systematic Mineralogy.” His health and strength, 
however, gradually declined, and continuing to work almost 
to the last, he passed away peacefully on Friday, February 
12th, 1892. His death at a comparatively early age must 
be deplored as a great loss to science; but he had the 
good fortune, not granted to all scientific workers, to have 
means and leisure in his closing years to bring together in 
a complete and elaborated form all the principal scientific 
results of the work of his life. 
Dr. Hunt was at the time of his death one of the oldest 
members of the Natural History Society of Montreal. He 
had been its President, and for many years one of its vice- 
presidents, and a member of its council. He took a lively 
interest in the society and in its publications ; and fre- 
quently contributed papers and lectures to its proceedings. 
The Society owes much to his long continued and active 
influence in its affairs. 
In 1878, Dr. Hunt married the eldest daughter of the 
late Mr. Justice Gale, a lady of culture and literary taste, 
who survives him. 
It is proper to state that the above notice is taken in 
part from biographical sketches published in the Montreal 
Gazette and elsewhere. 
THE EXPERIMENTAL FARMS OF CANADA. 
By Prorsssor D. P. PENHALLOW. 
The work now being conducted by the Central Experi- 
mental Farm. at Ottawa and its several branches, had its 
origin in a resolution of the House of Commons of the 30th 
January, 1884, appointing a Committee “to inquire into 
