Daw's on, Sir

JOHN WILLIAM, LL.D., F.R.S., geologist; born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Oct. 13, 1820. He received his education at Pictou College and Edinburgh University. He has devoted himself to geological research, and also to educational work. In the former he made a special stuty of the geology and mineralogy of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, largely adding to the number of known species of Post-pliocene fo ils. His dis covery in 1864, in the Lauren tian rocks, far below the range of known fo ils, of a supposed giant foraminifer which he named Eozoon can a dense, gave rise to a long. continued controversy, and the organic origin of this form is not generally admitted. He has been superintendent of education in Nova Scotia, principal of McGill College, Montreal, and profe or of Natural History. He also established and became principal of the McGill Normal Scho Scientific societies both of America and Europe have elected him to membership, and in 1885, he was knighted. His works include: Acadian Geology; The Story of the Earth and Man; Modern Science in Bible Lands ; Modern Ideas of Evolution , . He opposes the extreme Darwin i an theory.