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logical Society of Ontario, and every year since he has been 

 elected to hold some office in the Society, being four times vice- 

 president, and for three years, 1886-88, president. In 1879 he 

 was one of the originators of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' 

 Club, the most successful society of the kind in the Dominion, 

 and more recently he suggested and by his influence and energy 

 accomplished the promotion of the important Association of 

 Economic Entomologists of North America. 



The first official recognition of his attainments was in 1885, 

 when he was appointed Honorary Entomologist to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture at Ottawa, and in that capacity, though 

 much hampered by his duties in the Library of Parliament, 

 he published a valuable report on the injurious insects of the 

 year. Two years later the position of Entomologist and Botan- 

 ist to the Experimental Farms of the Dominion was con- 

 ferred upon him. 



In the years that have gone by, he has done an enormous 

 amount of valuable work, as shown in his annual reports and 

 evidence before the standing committee of the House of Com- 

 mons on Agriculture, his voluminous correspondence with 

 farmers all over the Dominion, and his addresses to Farmers' 

 Institutes and other gatherings. 



No one in Canada has done so much to instruct the people 

 in a practical knowledge of the worst insect foes and the best 

 methods of dealing with them, while probably no one but he 

 could have given the Province of Manitoba the information and 

 advice that he has repeatedly afforded by his lectures, addresses 

 and publications on the noxious weeds of that portion of the 

 Dominion. 



He was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by 

 Queens College and was a fellow of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science ; fellow of the Canadian 

 Royal Society; fellow of the London Linnean Society and of 

 the Entomological Society of America. He was first vice- 

 president of the latter Society in 1907 and took a great interest 

 in its formation. In 1891 he was the president of the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists and always took an active 

 part in its affairs. 



