HUNT, THOMAS STERRY , American geologist and chemist, was born at Norwich (Conn.), on Sept. 5, 1826. He became interested in natural science, and in 1845 he was elected a member of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists at Yale (1849) . In 1848 he read a paper in Philadelphia On Acid Springs and Gypsum Deposits of the Onondaga Salt Group. At Yale he became assistant to Prof. B. Silliman, Jr., and in 1846 was appointed a chemist to the geological survey of Vermont. In 1847 he was appointed to similar duties on the Canadian geological survey at Montreal under Sir William Logan, and this post he held until 1872. In 1859 he was elected F.R.S., and he was one of the original mem bers and president of the Royal Society of Canada. He died in New York city on Feb. 12, 1892.