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did much, both by precept and by financial aid, to encourage a 

 pursuit of science. The addition of a lecture-hall to the York 

 Museum was virtually his gift. He was a Member of Council and 

 former Vice-President of the British Association, President of the 

 Museums Association in 1910, and a Member of Council of the 

 Royal Geographical Societ}>\ He was elected to the Geological 

 Society and served on our Council in 1912-13, but resigned his 

 seat in prospect of the journey from which he was destined never 

 to return. He contributed a paj>er to our Quarterly Journal in 

 1910 on the Volcanoes of Matavanu in Savaii, beautifully illustrated 

 with his own photographs. In this paper, among many other 

 interesting observations, he gave what is probably the first account 

 by an eye-witness of the development of pillow- structure in a 

 lava-flow on its entering the sea. 



He died on August 26th, 1913, while on the homeward journey 

 from the Philippine Islands, and was buried in the cemetery 

 at Suez. 



Doxald Smith, first Baron Steathcoxa and Mouxt Royal, 

 was the son of Alexander Smith, a Highland merchant. He was 

 born, as he himself believed, on August 6th, 1820, but as his friends 

 thought, in 1818. At the age of 18 he entered the service of the 

 Hudson Bay Company, and for thirteen years was stationed at 

 Hamilton Inlet on the coast of Labrador, where, with characteristic 

 energy, he did what was possible to meet conditions of unusual 

 hardship and isolation. Passing through various grades, he became 

 Governor of the Company in 1869. 



In that year the Canadian Government purchased the proprietary 

 rights of the Hudson Bay Company, with the effect of rousing- 

 discontent among the French half-breeds and causing the Red 

 River Rebellion. Donald Smith, with two other commissioners. 

 was sent to negotiate with the rebels, and carried out his task with 

 such signal success as to receive the thanks of the Governor- General 

 in Council. From that time until 1896 he represented various 

 constituencies in the Dominion House of Commons, closing his 

 political career in Canada on receiving the appointment of High 

 Commissioner in London. 



Of all the great services rendered by Donald Smith to Canada 

 none have had a more profound effect upon the development of 

 the Dominion than the share which he took in the completion of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1871 a stipulation was made for the 



