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McGill Universit}', Montreal, where he graduated B.A. with first- 

 class honours in Natural Science and gained the Logan gold medal. 

 He afterwards attended Yale College and took the degree of Ph.D. 

 with honours. In 1871 he was appointed Lecturer on Chemistr}- at 

 McGill University. In the following year he succeeded T. Sterry 

 Hunt as chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of 

 Canada and retained the appointment until 1878, when he decided 

 to give his whole attention to the teaching work at the McGill 

 University. There he became Professor, not only of Chemistry 

 but also of Mining, and lectured on mineralogy and metallurgy. 

 Marrying the eldest daughter of Sir William Dawson, the Principal 

 of the University, he was in close touch with all the geological 

 activity of the Dominion. He wrote numerous reports and papers 

 on the rocks and minerals of Canada, giving analyses of coals, iron- 

 ores, and other mineral substances. He was author also of the ' Life 

 of Sir William E. Logan,' published in 1883. In the course of his 

 career he was President of the l^atural History Society of Montreal, 

 of the Chemical and Physical Section of the Eoyal Society of 

 Canada, and Yice-President of the Chemical Section of the British 

 Association during the meeting held at Toronto. He was elected 

 into our Society in 1883. 



Dr. Edwaed John Eouth, P.E.S., who was born at Quebec, in 

 Canada, on January 20th, 1831, became distinguished as a mathe- 

 matician and physicist, and also as the most famous of Cambridge 

 tutors. After studying at University College School under De 

 Morgan he entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1851, continuing his 

 studies under Todhunter and afterwards under William Hoj)kins, 

 a former President of this Society. In 1854 he graduated as 

 Senior Wrangler, and was elected a Eellow of Peterhouse. He 

 then took up the profession of teaching or ' coaching,' and exercised 

 it with unprecedented success. During a period of thirty-one 

 years, from 1857 to 1888, he helped nearly seven hundred pupils 

 through the Mathematical Tripos, five hundred of them becoming 

 Wranglers and twenty-seven Senior Wranglers. He published 

 many papers on mathematical subjects, and likewise treatises on 

 statics and dynamics. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society in 1864. He died at Cambridge on June 7th, 1907. 



By the death of Mark Stiertjp the geological circle of Manchester 

 has lost one of its most active and enthusiastic members. Erom the 



