39 HENRY DEANE. 
Mountains in British North America. The best known 
result of this expedition was the discovery of the pass by 
which the Canadian Pacific Railway now crosses from the 
prairies of the north-west to the Pacific coast. On his 
return from America be was appointed geologist to the 
Government of Otago, and from this on the scene of his 
work lay in New Zealand. He was an active teacher, a 
profound investigator, a lucid writer, and many of his works 
such as his ‘‘Outlines of New Zealand Geology,”’ his ‘* Hand- 
book of New Zealand,’’ the later editions of which were 
published in 1886, are works of permanent value. Sir James 
Hector was made a K.C.M.G. in 1887, he was a Fellow of 
the Geological Society and of the Royal Geographical 
Society, and was also elected third President of the Austra- 
lasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 
The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, known for so many years 
as Sir William Thomson, died at the age of 83. It is 
difficult, in view of his many honours and the large amount 
of work he has carried out to give a short statement that 
would be in any way adequate to represent the career of 
this great man, who was one of the greatest physicists 
which the world has produced. For more than sixty years 
he was prominently before the scientific world, and right 
up to the time of his death his wonderful activity was 
always a marvel. I may refer to the account of him which 
was given in Nature on the 26th December of last year. 
With regard to ordinary members, the loss has been 
severe. The names of those who have thus left us are 
Edward H. Jenkinson, David Ramsay, John O. Rolleston, 
F. B. W. Woolrych, J. I. Haycroft, Walter A. Smith, and 
H. A. Lenehan. I should like particularly to refer to some 
of those gentlemen in consequence of the special interest 
which they took in the work of our Society. 
Mr. James Isaac Haycroft was born at Cork in 1854. He 
graduated with honours in the Queen’s University in Ireland 
