Hugh James MacLean lost his life in an accident in Newfoundland on 19th September, 1951, when an aeroplane, owned by Buchans Mining Co., Ltd., crashed and all the occupants were killed.
He was born at Campbellton, New Brunswick, on 5th August, 1913, and educated at the University of New Brunswick, where he obtained a B.Sc. in Arts in 1934; at McGill University, where he did two years’ postgraduate study in electrochemistry from 1935 to 1937; and at Princeton University, New Jersey, where he obtained a Ph.D. in geology in 1940. During University vacations in the period 1934-40 he was an assistant field geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada (1934-36), field geologist in Labrador with the Labrador Mining and Exploration Co. (1937), and in Eastern Newfoundland with the Geological Survey of Newfoundland (1938-40).
On finishing his three-year course at Princeton in 1940, Dr. MacLean was in November of that year appointed chief geologist to the Buchans Mining Co., Ltd., Newfoundland, and was serving in that capacity when he died.
He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1950.
Vol. 61, Trans IMM 1951-52, p.527-8
