1855.] PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES. 141 



6. Mechanics' Institute Bertbier. Professor Edward Forties. 



a M r.,„i r'„iio„o o.foW ' Wliile tlie sympathies of Canadinus, as members of tbe British em- 



9" STan In tftut; Queb c' P-e, have been largely excited by the events in the East, which, amid 



1o' Pnlrl n^ Tn^mnt! Montreal her triumphs, involve the death of so many men whom England can 



10. Canadian Ins 1 ute Mo° -eal i" ^<^o^^ t» ^P''^-'^. ^^ «'•« ^"^^•'>«'l ^i' '^^ '"^^ «f """^ ""> ^''' '^'^''°- 



11. Mtional InsWe. St Hvalthe g^i-^^d ^"'ong th«se who take the letd in the ranks of scientific enter- 



12. Mechanics Institute St.Hyacmtbe. fc^.^^ ^^ ^^ t ^ ^, unjust to the students of science in Canada to 



14 B' hn '<iCollpi)-p Lennoxville suppose that the iiame of Edward Forbes can be unfamiliar to them ; 



I'l. ^isnopsi^oiiege,. . thoujrh in this western province of the empire, his loss cannot be cx- 



16. College at St. Hyacinthe. ^^^^-^ ^^ ^^^.^^ ^^^^ profound and mournful regret with which its 



lb. fenenora Acaciemy. . announcement has been received by those whose daily intercourse 



15 °'''°?'^'^'} -^'='"^^™y- with him enabled to appreciate, not only all he had already accom- 

 IQ sf TT • p ,, y" plished for science, but also all that was to be expected from him. 



on r n ""I'ni ° i^*^' Edward Forbes was in his thirty-ninth year, to all appearance only 



M. college at onamo y. ^^ ^^^ threshold of maturity, and with his best years before him for 



21. Clarenoeville Academy. j,^^ elaboration of his favourite pursuits ; and yet he was already re- 



ii' f"°""g«»y^'^''''«™y- cognised as prominently distinguished among the naturalists of Europe. 



23. Masson College at Terrebonne. „,,.,,.,.„. and one of the foremost in the ranks of British Palaeontologists. The 



24. High School at Durham \ lUage, County ot M.ssisquoi. ^ ^^^.^^^^ ^^ ^^^ contributions to geological science, consequent on the 



Copies of the second volume of the Canadian Journal, together with additions, his extensive knowledge, and fine powers of observation, in 



the published numbers of the third volume, will be sent from the office relation to extinct and recent zoology and botany, enabled him to make 



. ^. , ,., ^ . „ ., ... ., „ • ,■ ,■ „„ Too ^a to the natural history of geology, was abundantly proved by his elec- 



of the Institute in conformity with the foregomg directions. We re- ^.^^^ .^ ^g.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^Qh^i^ot the Geological Society of London. This 



gret that in consequence of the edition of the first volume being ex- honorary office, which, according to the wonted usage of scientific 



hausted, the very liberal and encouraging instructions of the Library societies, pertained to some of the veteran savans who had grown grey 



Committee cannot be carried out in exienso at present. There are now in the service, was justly regarded as a peculiar and m arked distinction, 



, , , J 1 1- *■ <• 1' 1 „,„ I ;„ ii.o „fKno nf tlip when conferred by such men as Lyell, De la Beche, Murchison, Sedg- 



npwards of one hundred applications for \ olume I. in the office of the ^.^j_^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^.,j j,^^,^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^jj^_ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 



Institute. never destined to attain his fortieth year. 



Professor Forbes was the son of a banker at Douglas, in the Isle of 



Man, where his earlier years were spent, and his studies pursued, till 



LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF he entered as a student of Edinburgh University in 1830 Thereitwas 



_ , , P _ p. _ his good fortune to form one of a httle band of students, whose intel- 



QU EBEC. lectual pastimes in those pleasant college days ripened, in later years, 



into substantial results. Among his contemporaries at College were 



LUerary or Stated Bleeting, Wednesday, 1st Ifovember. Professor Goodsir, the distinguished physiologist, Professor J. Y. 



. Simpson, well known on this continent as the discoverer of the anses- 



Fredenck Boxer was proposed as an Associate member. ^■^^^^^^ properties of chloroform. Professor J. S. Blackie, the translator 



A paper was read by Lieut. A. Noble, R.A., on the mean results of of iEschylus, Dr. George Wilson, the biographer of Cavendish, Dr. S. 



Meteorological Observations taken at Quebec dm-ing the winters of B™^". P^- Ly<"i Playfair, Professor Day of St. Andrews, the Rev. 



'' ° John Cairns, Professor Bennet of Edinburgh, and others, whose sub- 



18.3- and 18o3. sequent contributions to science and literature have added a peculiar 



A paper was read by Lieut. Ashe, R.N., F.R.A.S., on the Construe- interest to the retrospect of those who can recall the associations of 



„ J., f ■ „r • 1 • u- that neriod of student life at Edinburgh. The facilities which the 



tion of a raft for rescuing persons from sinking ships. „ pcnu^i ui ^luu^ui, v ^ , . P . ■ , , v •* i 



*=■ ^ o 1 Scottish capital affords to the student of science, not only by its edu- 



cational institutions and peculiar social constitution — in some respects 



General Mouthly Meeting, AVednesday, 8tU November. analogous to that of the English University towns-but also still more, 



■ by its singular natural advantages, were promptly appreciated by Ed. 



Frederick Boxer was elected an Associate Member of the Society. Forbes ; and he very early formed the desire of being able to take up 



his permanent residence there. In a notice of him, in one of the local 



I.Herary or Stated Electing, IVednesday, lotli November, journals, ascribed to his old friend and fellow-student, Professor 



Lieut. Ashe, R.N., F.R. A.S., exhibited a model of the species of ^^^'^^^^'t'eg'i^rng hls^^udies in Edinburgh in 1830, Mr. Forbes had 



raft which formed the subject of his communication to the Society on already made great advances in his favourite scientific pursuits, and to 



the 8th. instant. these attainments he added remarkable artistic powers, and literarv- 



The peculiarities of tho proposed raft, are, 1st. Its Bimplicity, and acquirements of extraordinary extent in one so young. The earliest 



' / . n 1 T, ,. i I • friend he made among his fellow students there, calling on him only a 



consequent facility of construction. 2nd. Its component parts being ^^^ ^^^.^ ^^^^^ ^j^ arrival, found his rooms occupied in every corner 



intended to be used for other purposes on board ship, are always at j,y geological, zoological, and botanical specimens already collected in 



hand when required the neighbourhood. From that time he entertained the opinion so 



Wm. iVntrobus Ilolwell read a paper describing a new species of strikingly expressed in his last introductory lecture, that no other city 



' '^ " ' afforded so many advantages to the student of natural history as Edin- 



projectile invented by him. burgh. From liis various travels in Norway, Sweden,* Germany, and 



A donation was announced of two specimens of papcrmoney in use in Algeria, all accomplished by him while a student, he ever returned to 



,,.,.,.-,,. . /-. 1 . i- X- A- 1 1 T» 1 • tliiit citv as to a home endeared to liiui by scientific as much as social 



the British North American Colonies of ^ew lork and Pennsvlvania, uiui lu.\ us lu u m uii. ^.luv ^ . -i i ■,■ i 



,,,,„>.,.,%,„ considerations. On these returns, too, he was hailed with pleasure 



dated 1 1 o8 and 1 . 1 6 rospecUvely, presented by 1\ m. Antrobus Ilolwell. y^^. ^ ^[^.^.j^ ^^ scientific, literary, and artistic friends, in each of whose 



E. A. MEREDITH, Vice-President. pursuits he took the thorough 'interest of a fellow student, while by 



all of them he was recognized as a centre of high intellect nnd benig- 



* It may not, perhaps, bo altogether superfluous to remind the 



E.MIGKATION OF 1854.— The annual report of the Commissioners of readers of the Canadian Jvuriial that the subject of the present memoir 



Emigration, recently published, shows that 313,749 persons landed must not be confounded with another member of the Edinburgh scicn- 



in New York from foreign ports dm-ing the last vear, being a consider- tific staff. Professor Jas. D. Forbes, whose recent work on the Glaciers 



able increase over the year 18-53. Of the above" number 100,723 carae of Norway has added to the reputation acquired by previous valuable 



from Germany, 79,004 from Ireland, and 30,07.3 from England. works. 



