THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



the large gathering by a rousing speech to form an active rifle 

 corps. He was at once elected Captain and the ranks were speedily 

 filled. "The University Rifle Corps" was firmly established and 

 soon attained a high degree of efficiency. Subsequently it formed 

 a part of the famous Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto and bore a 

 share in the engagement with the Fenians at Ridgeway in June, 

 1866, when three of its undergraduate members were killed and 

 several wounded. 



Years went by, each one filled with steady work and each 

 adding to the esteem in which the Professor was held by many 

 successive generations of students and by the public at large. 

 At length, his health began to fail and the strong, vigorous man 

 found that he could no longer sustain the burden of his University 

 work, and that the time had come for his retirement. In 1879 

 he resigned the Professorship that he had so long and so ably filled, 

 and removed with his family to Las Hermanitas, near San Diego, 

 in Texas. There he spent a few pleasant years of rest and quiet 

 and died on March 1st, 1883. Seven years later a Protestant 

 Episcopal Church was erected in San Diego by his children and 

 dedicated to his memory and that of their mother. At the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto his name is commemorated by the portrait in 

 the Senate Chamber (from which our photograph is taken) and the 

 beautiful round building now known as "The Croft Chapter House," 

 which for many years was his laboratory and the centre of his 

 work. In the words of his .biographer, "It was there that his 

 hundreds of students were initiated into the mysteries of his 

 favourite science, and learned those lessons of patient enquiry 

 and minute observation which are invaluable in the lifework of 

 every man. Those who in times past were his pupils and found 

 delight in his scientific investigations will not soon forget his 

 enthusiastic zeal, his enlarged acquaintance with the literature of 

 his department, his kindly interest in all amongst his friends and 

 followers who manifested a regard for his favourite studies." 



"He retired from his field of work with a consciousness of duty 

 well done, and with the gratitude which is certain to follow one who, 

 after a long term of public service, has finished a work which has 

 been carried on with conscientious fidelity and far-reaching success." 



C. J. S. Bethune. 



