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Society of Canada. MeGill University conferred upon him the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. He was elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society in 1859, and the Lyell Medal was awarded to 

 him in 1907, in recognition of 'his prolonged and valuable contri- 

 butions to the Geology and Palaeontology of Canada.' An account 

 of his life is given in the Geological Magazine for 190G. 



Hilary Batjermax, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E. (1834-1909). — Mr. Bauer- 

 man was born in 1834, and at the age of 18 entered the newly 

 established Government School of Mines and of Science applied to 

 the Arts, which was subsequently transformed into the Royal School 

 of Mines. The Government School was fortunate in possessing an 

 exceptionally brilliant staff, which included teachers so diverse as 

 Ramsay and Forbes on the one hand, whose wide knowledge of 

 fact was devoted to the advancement of theory, and Warington 

 Smyth and Percy on the other, whose equally wide knowledge of 

 theory was made subservient to practical ends. It was with the 

 latter that Bauerraan was most closely allied by the natural dis- 

 position of his mind, and it was as a practical man applying Science 

 to the Arts of Mining and Metallurgy that he spent the greater 

 part of an unusually busy and useful life. In 1853 he proceeded to 

 the Freiberg Mining Academy, and on leaving it in 1855 he was 

 appointed an Assistant Geologist on the Geological Survey of Great 

 Britain. In 1858 he was selected to act as Geologist to the North 

 America Boundary Commission, and was engaged on tbe work of 

 this Commission until 1863. From 1864 to 1888 he was constantly 

 occupied in surveying and exploring mineral properties in various 

 parts of the world, including the United States, Mexico, Brazil, 

 Peru, Egypt, Arabia, India, Asia Minor, Norway, Sweden, and 

 many other parts of Europe. His knowledge of European towns, 

 both large and small, was remarkable, and frequently excited the 

 astonishment of his friends ; he seemed at home in most of them, 

 and his memory was stored with details of their history. In 1883 

 he was appointed Lecturer on Metallurgy in Firth College, Sheffield ; 

 and in 1886 he succeeded Percy as Professor of Metallurgy in the 

 Ordnance College, "Woolwich, a post which he held until 1906, 

 when he retired from the public service. 



Bauerman was the author of a text-book on Descriptive and 

 Systematic Mineralogy, and of the article on the Metallurgy of Iron 

 in Phillips <fc Bauerman's ' Metallurgy ' ; he also contributed many 

 valuable articles to the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1863, and served on the 



