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acknowledged by Lord Alverstone, who speaks of him ‘as one of 
the most charming and unselfish characters’ that he ever met. In 
recognition of these services Dawson was made a Companion of the 
Order of St. Michael & St. George. 
He became a Fellow of this Society in 1875, and received the 
Bigsby Medal in 1891. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
Society of London in 1891, President of the Royal Society of 
Canada in 1894, and received the Gold Medal of the Royal 
Geographical Society of London in 1897. He was taken away from 
us most suddenly on March 2nd, 1901, after only one day’s absence 
from his official post; but he has left behind a noble example of 
unselfish devotion to the cause of science. 
The Hon. Crarence Kaye was born at Newport (Rhode Island), 
and was educated in Yale University. He was best known to us 
in connection with the United States Geological Exploration of the 
Fortieth Parallel, of which he prepared the Geological and Topo- 
graphical Atlas, published in 1876, and sundry reports. When in 
1880 the several distinct surveys were consolidated as the United 
States Geological Survey, Mr. King was chosen as the first Director. 
He entered on these new duties with considerable enthusiasm, and 
as he was supported by an able staff, the investigations which he 
directed on Leadville in Colorado, on the Eureka district, and on the 
Comstock Lode in Nevada, were successfully carried out. Mr. King, 
however, found that administrative duties occupied so much of his 
time that he held office for a year only, and retired in 1881, when 
he was succeeded by Major J. W. Powell. Of late years Mr. King 
had not come prominently before the geological world, the only 
noteworthy contribution which he produced being an article on the 
age of the earth, which appeared in the annual report of the 
Smithsonian Institution for 1893. Mr. King became a Fellow 
of this Society in 1874. He died at Phoenix (Arizona) on 
December 24th, 1901. [H. B. W.] 
Ricuarp PryneratHEeR RorHwett, born at Oxford (Ontario) on 
May Ist, 1836, was educated at Trinity College, Toronto, and the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy (New York), where he 
graduated with honours in Civil Engineering in 1858. He 
subsequently passed through the complete course of study of the 
Ecole des Mines at Paris, and the practice of mining and ore- 
dressing at Freiberg. After a short period of service at Mr. Henlay’s 
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