VENNOR, GEORGE HENRY (184o-1884), Canadian geologist and meteorologist, was born at Montreal on Dec. 3o, 1840. He graduated at McGill University in 186o and, after a number of private scientific expeditions, was in 1866 placed on the staff of the Canadian geological survey. His studies and re vised classification of the great Laurentian system of rocks brought him a wide reputation and election to the Royal Geo graphical Society. He traced the Lievre, Rouge and Gatineau rivers to their sources and called attention to the phosphate deposits of Ottawa county. Over a period of many years he
studied the characters and courses of storms deducing a number of general principles. From 1877 to his death he published Ven nor's Almanac. He was the author of Our Birds of Prey; or the Eagles, Hawks and Owls of Canada (1876), and contributed fre quently to the Canadian Naturalist and the British American Magazine.