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Note: living in Philadelphia with brother Charles in 1880 census The United States Government has invited Dr Benjamin Sharp, Corresponding Secretaty of the Academy of Natural Sciences and Professor of Invertebrate Zoology, and John M Justice of this city to visit Alaska and the seal fisheries on the Priblof Islands, on the revenue cutter Bear, in the interests of science. The party will be gone three or four months, and will collect specimens of botany, zoology, and minerology.
As an act of courtesy to Gen Isaac J Winter, President of the Academy, the Government permits Dr. Sharp and Mr. Justice to collect skins and skeletons of the male, female, and young of the fur seal for he academy, although in general the law forbids the killing of seals. The party will leave Philadelphia tomorrow for Port Townsend, where they will meet the Bear. NY TIMES-Apr 25, 1895
John M Justice was elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1896. Also elected at the same time was Charles Custis Harrison, sugar magnate, and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, John's uncle Henry Vezey married a Custis.
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