Abstract
NEWS has been received of the death of Sir William Dawson, Emeritus Principal and Chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, and the most distinguished of Canadian geologists. He was the son of James Dawson, of Picton, a town on the northern shores of Nova Scotia, where he was born in October 1820.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
W., H. Sir J. William Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. . Nature 61, 80–81 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061080b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/061080b0