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Meps, pletes, cherts, etc., mey be filmed et different reduction retios. Those too lerge to be entirely included in one exposure ere filmed beginning in the upper left hend corner, left to right end top to bottom, es msny fremes es required. The following diegrems iliustrste the method: Los certes, plsnchee, tebieeux, etc., peuvent Atre fiimte A des tsux de reduction diff Arents. Lorsque le document est trop grend pour Atre reproduit en un seul clich6, ii est filmA d partir de i'engle supArieur geuche, de geuche A droite, et de heut en bee, en prenent le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivents illustrent le mAthode. >, 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Section II., 1893. [ 67 ] Trans. Roy. Soo. Canada. IJl.—F. N. Oishome. By Sir James Grant, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.G.S. (Read May 23, 1893.) IN MEMORIAM. The duty which devolves upon me to-day is a solemn one : an expression of opinion as to the life work of a much respected friend, whom to know was to esteem, and more especially for the quiet, easy and undemonstrative manner in which he housed a vast store of knowledge, his great ai.m and object being rather the advancement of science than personal aggrandizement. The late Mr. Gisborne arrived in Canada in July, 1845, and although at that time a young man, he had taken a high position in mathematics and civil engineering under the guidance of the Rev. R. Pidcock, vicar of Warslow, Stafford- shire, England. Shortly after (he arrival of Mr. Gisborne in Canada, the whole subject of telegraphy was on the move, and having made electricity almost a life study, he became deeply interested in the practical application of telegraphy to the needs and requirements of the people of Canada. His well known English reputation followed him to this country, in consequence of which he was chosen one of the very first active operators of the Montreal Telegraph Company, and opened the first office for that company in the old hisioric city of Quebec. Shortly afterwards the British North American Electric Telegraph Association was formed in order to connect the then Canada with the maritime provinces. Mr. Gisborne was at once appointed manager of the association to carry out so very desirable an undertaking at the time. The government of Nova Scotia most creditably rendered every assistance to Mr. Gisborne, and from the spring of 1849 to 1851 he acted as chiefoperator and superintendent of the Government lines, at Halifax. Shortly afterwards Mr. Gisborne conceived the idea of connecting by telegraphic communication the island of Newfoundland with Nova Scotia. After much trouble in inducing capitalists in New York and in Canada to undertake this enterprise, and when almost any other man would have failed, under very trying circumstances, he had the great pleasure of completing this great undertaking in October, 1856, to the entire satisfaction of his company. While working out the electric junction with Newfoundland, he was the first to originate the idea of connecting that ishtnd with Ireland by an Atlantic submarine cable. The late Hon. Jos. Howe was shortly afterwards consulted by Mr. Gisborne as to this undertaking, which at the time was looked upon with grave doubt. Mr. Gisborne then visited New York, and placed his ideas before the late Cyrus W. Field and Mr. Brett, who were so favour- ably impressed that Mr, Field returned with Mr. Gisborne to St. Johns, Newfoundland, and made a careful examination of his plans, which produced a most favourable impression, and resulted in the carrying out by Cyrus Field, of the great transatlantic cable, backed by all the requisite capital and influence of our progressive American neighbours. In May, 68 SIR JAMRS (iRANT.— IN MKMOK'IAM-F. N. <IISB()RNI-; 1857, Mr. G^isborne returned to Newfoundland and at a public dinner was presented with a valuable silver statuette for the indomitable energy he displayed in carrying out successfully the first Canadian submarine telegraph, which was the very initial step in the widespread oceanic telegraphy of the present day. Mr. Gisborne possessed a very thorough knowledge of mineralogy and during his varied and extensive telegraphic explorations took a deep interest in the development of gold, silver, copper and coal in the maritime provinces, and acted for the Newfoundland Government as Commissioner of Mines in the great London exhibition of 1862, and subsequently represented that island at the Paris exhibition of 1865. In 18V9 his services were secured by the Canadian Government as superintendent of the Dominion Telegraph and Signal Service, and should evidence be requisite as to his zeal and ability, such will be found in the Canadian Gulf Service and Pacific Cable Service, where his cable system is now allbrding to the Dominion an amount of practical good, the importance of which (;annot be over-estimated. As his medical friend, I most strongly advised him against undertaking the final link of the present established cable gulf service. His reply was, " I have a du*y to perform and shall make the effort," v/hich was more than his then feeble system could endure, and as the result, Canada has lost a man of far more than ordinary ability, whose name will go down to posterity, honoured for genuine worth, great originality and marked scientific ability. Mr. Gisborne was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Canada, and at its various gatherings contributed in no small degree to the success of this society, which takes a most important part in conveying to the outside world the idea that our Dominion is upward and onward in the march oT science and literature. Such is the basis of true national greatness and the foundation which will bind u.s togeth'^r, more closely, if possible, as one people.