186 The American Geologist. March i89o. 
forgot me in the distribution of his very interesting and vahiable pub- 
lications," as Iloneyman writes in one of his letters, dated Oct. 16th, 
1884, adding: "I received your volume on The Taconic system, with. 
the interesting correspondence. I read Barrande's letters very care- 
fully. Certainly Logan and the other adversaries of the Taconic do 
not make a very creditable appearance in the correspondence." * * * 
"E. de Verneuil is gone, Barrande is also gone, and only Marcou is 
left of all my intimate friends of 1867. I am very glad to find that my 
very good friend Marcou still retains his pristine vigor and that his 
pen is always ready to defend his own and others' rights. Long may 
he continue in vigor of body and mind." 
Dr. Honeyman was an original and very careful observer; and he 
defended successfully all his researches in the field of Nova Scotian 
geology and his rights whenever attacked, as was the case in his con- 
troversy with Sir J. William Dawson. He published thirty-nine 
papers on the geology of Acadia, particularly on Arisaig, Antigonish, 
the gold-bearing series of Yarmouth, and the glacial action and trans- 
portation in Nova Scotia. All his commimications were made before 
the Nova Scotian Institute and published in its transactions, contrib- 
uting largely to the reputation of that institute as well in the Canada 
Dominion as abroad. 
Honeyman's sphere of action was not limited to geology and miner- 
alogy; he extended his studies to biological subjects. Eight of his 
papers treat of new and rare fishes, echinoderms, sponges and organ- 
isms found attached to sub-marine cables. He represented Nova 
Scotia at the Loudon Fisheries Exhibition of 1883, as well as at the 
Dublin Exhibition of 1865 and at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibi- 
tion of 1876. Appointed curator of the Provincial Museum of Nova 
Scotia, he was so successful in his management, that he is justly con- 
sidered as the creator of it, at least to a large extent ; for the museum, 
under his charge, has acquired such dimensions as to demand a 
special building for the display of its collections. Dr. Honeyman 
received tlie honorary degree of D.C.L. from King's College, AVindsor. 
He was a member of the Geological Society of France, a fellow of the 
Geological Societies of London and of America, and of the Royal 
Society of Canada. J. M. 
Preiglacial Channels at the falls of the Ohio. In a previous 
letter I referred to what seemed to be evidence of a terminal moraine 
near Louisville, Ky. Subsequent observation has confirmed this 
opinion, although there are many perplexing problems yet to be 
solved connected with the drift in this locality. 
A residence of five years in Louisville with daily opportunities for 
observation has impressed upon the mind of the writer, as never 
before, the fact that very little erosion has taken place in post-glacial 
times. It has also been made evident that very little scraping out 
was done by the glacier, but a good deal of filling in, especially 
toward the southern limit of the ice-sheet. It is well known to geol- 
