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Dr. Fletcher was a remarkable man in many ways and the 

 word great expresses what he has done to encourage and teach 

 the value of economic entomology and botany in the Dominion 

 of Canada. He had a contagious enthusiasm and kept up 

 the interest of a host of correspondents by aiding them in 

 every way in his power. He was an excellent and lucid teacher, 

 a lecturer of unusual ability and a graceful writer. His name 

 was a household word among entomologists not only in Can- 

 ada, but throughout North America, and in many parts of the 

 world besides. He traveled extensively and had a large ac- 

 quaintance wherever he went, and made many trips across 

 the continent, collecting principally along the line of the Can- 

 adian Pacific Railway. He was a large and handsome man of 

 commanding presence and had the love and respect of a host 

 of friends and admirers. His loss will be keenly felt and our 

 only consolation is the thought that his grand work and ex- 

 ample will live and be a beacon light to those that follow. He 

 leaves a widow and two daughters one of whom is married. 



DR. FRANCIS HUNTINGTON SNOW.* 



In the year 1866 there came to the University of Kansas 

 from Williams college a young man of twenty-six, full of 

 enthusiasm, eager to do his part in the upbuilding of the school 

 then beginning its first year's work, and pleased with the fresh- 

 ness and beauty of the new country. He spent the remainder 

 of his life in the service of the institution and the state which 

 he had thus early adopted as his own. For forty-two years he 

 gave the best that was in him to this service which, for ten 

 years, called him from his scientific pursuits to the Chancellor's 

 chair. In this position, through a lean and trying period, he 

 guided the destinies of the state university during its transition 

 stage from a small college to a university. 



In no uncertain way he thus gave directly from his life, for 

 the irksomeness of the administrative work finally undermined 

 his health and he was obliged to resign his position at the 



*Born at Fitchburg, Mass., June 29, 1840. 



