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Obituary. 



Dr. Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, LL.D., F.G.S., F.R.S. 



the distinguished paleontologist to the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, died at his home in Ottawa on August 8 last, in his 

 74th year. Born in Oxford, England, on the 20th of December, 

 1835, he was early attracted to the pursuit of Natural History in 

 his native city, and began by collecting the land and freshwater 

 shells of the neighborhood. Later most of his time was devoted 

 to collecting and studying the Jurassic fossils of the country 

 around Oxford. In 1861, Dr. Whiteaves arrived at Quebec, 

 Canada, and then proceeded to Montreal, where he became 

 acquainted with Eikanah Billings, paleontologist of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey. From 1865 to 1875, he was Curator of the 

 Museum of the Society of Natural History at Montreal, publish- 

 ing papers in the meanwhile on the land and freshwater mol- 

 lusca of Lower Canada, the Ordovician fossils of the Island of 

 Montreal, and the living marine invertebrates of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. In 1875, he joined the Geological Survey of Canada 

 as associate paleontologist with Eikanah Billings, succeeding 

 in 1876 to the office of paleontologist, a position he held up to 

 the time of his death. In 1883 he received the additional 

 appointments of zoologist and assistant director. During these 

 thirty-four years of service he published more than 100 papers on 

 Canadian paleontology and zoology. 



Dr. Whiteaves was one of the original Fellows of the Royal 

 Society of Canada, and was an active Fellow of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science between 18S2 and 

 1899, and Vice President of its section of Geology and Geography 

 in 1899. In 1900 he received the degree of LL.D. from McGili 

 University, Montreal. His chief work has been in making known 

 the stratigraphy and paleontology of western Canada. c. s. 



Hugh Fletcher, geologist of the Canadian Government, died 

 of pneumonia, September 23d, at Lower Cove, Cumberland, 

 Nova Scotia. He was born at London, December 9, 1848, and 

 came to Canada in 1863. In 1872 he joined the Geological Sur- 

 vey of that country, after taking the B.A. degree at Toronto the 

 previous year. During his thirty-seven years of active geological 

 service he did much to develop the mineral resources of Nova 

 Scotia, especially the coal deposits. His official reports are volu- 

 minous, carefully prepared and detailed. He stood high among 

 the mining men of Nova Scotia, and also among American geol- 

 ogists. He leaves a son and daughter. c. s. 



Dr. Anton Dohrn, the eminent zoologist who founded and as 

 director developed the Biological Station at Naples, died at 

 Munich on September 26 at the age of sixty-eight years. 



