=Dymond, Allan Malcolm= (Toronto, Ont.) was born at Brixton, Surrey, England, September 25, 1864, came to Canada with his parents in 1869 and received his education at Upper Canada College. He studied law in the office of Blake, Kerr, Boyd & Cassels, and subsequently with the Hon. A. S. Hardy, and Henderson & Small, and was called to the Bar in 1885. He practised law in Toronto until 1889, when he entered the service of the province as Law Secretary to the Attorney-General; was appointed Law Clerk of the Legislative Assembly in 1890. In November, 1890, he married Emma Stanton Mellish, Mus. Bac., eldest daughter of the late Rev. H. F. Mellish, Rector of Caledonia, Haldimand County, Ontario. Was a member of and acted as Secretary to the Commission for the Revision of the Statutes in 1897, and the Commission (1906-1914) which prepared the Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1914. Was appointed King’s Counsel by the Ontario Government in 1902. He is a specialist in the construction of Statutes and Parliamentary draughtsmanship, and has been concerned in the preparation or revision of most of the important legislation of the province since his appointment. Is a member of the Church of England—a liberal High Churchman. * * * * * =Coyne, James Henry, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.C.= (St. Thomas, Ont.), was born at St. Thomas, Ont., October 3, 1849. James H. Coyne is the second son of William and Christina Coyne, and was educated at the common school in his native town, until he was eleven years old, when he passed into the Grammar School, then under the charge of the late Mr. (Rev.) Nelson Burns, M.A. At fourteen years of age, he matriculated in the University of Toronto, carrying off the first general proficiency scholarship, and first-class honors in classics, mathematics, French, etc. Owing to his extreme youth, he did not enter University College until 1867. He devoted himself chiefly to classics and modern languages, and, after gaining numerous scholarships and prizes at the University and college during his undergraduate course, graduated in 1870, carrying off the Prince of Wales’ prize for general proficiency, the gold medal in moderns, a silver medal in classics, the French essay prize, and first-class honors in history and ethnology. In 1884 he was elected by his fellow-graduates a member of the Senate of the University, a position he still holds. After graduating, the subject of this sketch entered the law office of the late Colin Macdougall, Q.C., at St. Thomas; interrupted his law studies for a year to take charge of the Cornwall High School, where he was headmaster during the year 1871; returned then to Mr. Macdougall’s office for a year, and then removed to Toronto, where he served for two years in the office of Bethune & Hoyles. He was admitted to the bar in Michaelmas term, 1874, passing first without an oral, both as barrister and as attorney; and at once