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Professor of Chemistry in the Laval University, Quebec, from 1856 

 k to 1862, during which time he delivered annual courses of lectures in 

 French. He continued to be Honorary Professor until his death. 

 He was also for several years Lecturer in M'Gill University, Montreal, 

 and was Professor of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, 1872-78. Among his academic titles were those of 

 M.A., Harvard; Sc.D., Laval; LL.D., M'Gill; and finally LL.D., 

 Cambridge, England. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 of London in 1859. He was a member of a large number of other 

 societies, both Canadian and foreign. A member of the National 

 Academy of Science of the United States, in 1873, he was President 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of 

 the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and twice President of 

 the American Chemical Society. He was one of the original mem- 

 bers and the third President of the Royal Society of Canada, which, 

 uniting some of the features of the British Association with those of 

 a Royal Society, elects a new President annually. One of the 

 organisers of the International Geological Congress, he was its first 

 Secretary, and was a Vice-President at the Congresses of Paris, 1878, 

 Boulogne, 1881, and London, 1888. In connexion with the great 

 industrial exhibitions, Dr. Hunt represented Canada as a member of 

 the International Juries at Paris in 1855 and 1867, and at the Phil- 

 adelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. He was an officer of the 

 French order of the Legion of Honour and of the Italian order of St. 

 Maurice and St. Lazarus. 



In 1878 Dr. Hunt retired from public professional life, and devoted 

 himself mainly to the perfecting of his more important works in new 

 editions, and to the preparation of his ' Systematic Mineralogy.' 

 His health and strength, however, gradually declined, and, continuing 

 to work almost to the last, he passed away peacefully on Friday, 

 February 12, 1892. His death must be deplored as a great loss to 

 science ; but he had the good fortune, not granted to all scientific 

 workers, to have means and leisure in his closing years to bring 

 together in a complete and elaborated form all the principal scientific 

 results of the work of his life. 



In 1878 Dr. Hunt married the eldest daughter of the late Mr. 

 Justice Gale, a lady of culture and literary taste, who survives him. 



J. W. D. 



Carl Wilhelm von Nageli, the son of a country doctor, was born 

 on March 27, 1817, at Kilchberg, a village overlooking the Lake of 

 Zurich. His school days were for the most part spent at the Zurich 

 Gymnasium, and at their close he entered the University of Zurich 

 with the intention of preparing for his father's profession. His in- 

 clinations soon led him, however, to pursue scientific and philosophical 



