Sir John William Dazuson. — Ami. 7 
ing in the highest sense of the term. He sought in an effective 
and practical manner to give to the various classes of students 
under him the most advanced results of science, and research. 
Science education abroad occupied his attention and from the 
result of his observations and his knowledge of the needs and 
importance of practical science education, he applied the best 
methods of teaching in the university under his care. A care- 
ful study of methods of work, and teaching in the Royal 
School of Mines, the department of science and arts, London 
University, the Royal Institution, Owens College, Manchester, 
science teaching in Cambridge and Oxford, and the movement 
in Edinburgh, in the Sheffield Scientific school, together with 
science teaching in the technical universities of Germany and 
Switzerland formed a subject of an important paper from his 
pen. The want of science teaching in Canada and what was 
being done at Montreal in 1870 towards establishing the facul- 
ty of applied science at McGill, and the lines in which practical 
science training should fall, were carefully delineated. 
Sir \\^illiam was particularly happy when, out in the field 
with a class of students or with the members of the Natural 
History Society of Montreal on their annual excursions, he 
was engaged in examining the geological phenomena of the 
various localities visited, and instilling into his hearers the 
zeal of his enthusiasm, with what vigor and dexterity he 
wielded the hammer. His keen, penetrating eye and a sharp 
lookout for any rare species or new form of fossil organisms 
was very evident on all such occasions. He did much to fos- 
ter and encourage collecting specimens in all branches of na- 
tural history. He was eminently practical in all his teaching, 
and as may be seen from the large accumulation of material 
now displayed in the cabinets of the Peter Redpath museum, 
he enlisted the co-operation of the students of the university 
both during and after their college career, and thus materially 
assisted in building up that monument of his industry. 
Sir William was the first librarian of McGill University, 
iind he began a catalogue of the few books which constituted 
the library at that time — 1856 — and from this small beginning 
sought to bring together all the available volumes bearing on 
science and literature for the benefit of the students under his 
