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the oyster, the clam, and the abalone or Haliotis, are at present 

 used for food. 



It would take many pages to tell of his numerous papers 

 contributed to scientific journals, from the time of his early 

 papers in the Nautilus, and later in the Canadian Entomologist, 

 and especially in The Ottawa Naturalist, which for nearly 

 twenty years he has enriched with able notes and papers. One 

 of general interest is a sketch of Canadian Conchologv (March, 

 1895), an admirable summary with a valuable bibliography of 

 the principal papers on the subject. He made many additions 

 to our mollusean fauna, such as the two land shells, Punctum 

 clappii and P.taylori, the latter being new to science, and named 

 by Dr. Pils-bery after him. 



His splendid entomological labours which brought him 

 into contact with leading authorities in France, Germany and 

 Britain, as well as in this continent, will be adequately treated 

 elsewhere, but reference may be made to such papers as "Notes 

 for April in Vancouver Island," published in these pages in 1898, 

 in which he told of forty species of Coleoptera secured in an 

 afternoon walk, besides Cicadas, and specimens of Lepidoptera, 

 Hymenoptera and Orthoptera, some of them rare. A valuable 

 list of Pacific Marine Mollusca, covering over eighty pages of 

 the Royal Society's Transactions, 1895, must not be omitted; 

 but it is not possible to name, even by title, the many scientific 

 contributions bearing this indefatigable worker's name. 



He was chosen a member of the Biological Board of Canada, 

 and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and of 

 the Entomological Society of London, while for a time he was 

 an associate editor (in zoology) of The Ottawa Naturalist. 

 He himself especially valued the mark of appreciation on the 

 part of his brother naturalists in Ottawa, when he was chosen as 

 a Corresponding Member of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



High as was his rank amongst entomologists, he held a 

 hardly less eminent position amongst marine biologists and 

 conchologists, but he was also well versed in botany and geology, 

 and his mathematical abilities were such that had he gone to 

 Cambridge University, as in early life was intended, he would 

 have, without doubt, gained high academic distinction in the 

 mathematical tripos. His genial personal qualities and his self- 

 denying devotion to science, especially work in the field and at 

 sea, attracted all who were privileged to know him. Numerous 

 as are his scientific papers, his labours and influence cannot be 

 adequately measured by them. 



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