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Dawson for the four succeeding years. These were the distinguished 

 predecessors in whose steps he had to walk ; and it was agreed by all that, 

 in his hands, the best traditions of the office were fully maintained. He 

 worked while it was day faithfully and well. Feeling testimony is borne 

 to his services and character in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Canada of last year ; and in the galaxy of noble men whom that Society 

 has lost, the name of James Fletcher shines, and will shine, with a 

 radiance all its own. 



Mr. R. B. Whyte spoke on behalf of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' 

 Club. He told of the early days in the history of the society and of the 

 keen interest which Dr. Fletcher, who had been worthily styled its 

 " father," always had in its welfare. When the Club was organized in 

 1879, about 40 gentlemen joined its ranks, largely through Dr. Fletcher's 

 influence. No one at that time ever expected the Club to develop in the 

 remarkable way it has done and to do the great amount of work it 

 has since accomplished. From that year until his death, during which 

 period the membership has increased to over 300, he was at all times the 

 chief mainstay, so to speak, of its varied branches of work. As a field- 

 naturalist, there was probably no one in America who was his equal. 

 He had a deep love for boys and girls, and many well-known naturalists 

 in Canada to-day owe their early interest in plants and animals to him. 

 At the excursions of the Club he was always the leading centre of 

 attraction. Everyone wanted to go with Dr. Fletcher through the woods 

 and into the meadows and get from him some of his enthusiasm and 

 knowledge about the forms of life which occurred everywhere. 



Mr. P>ank T. Shutt, Chief Chemist of the Dominion Experimental 

 Farms, said that to those who knew James Fletcher personally no monu- 

 ment in stone or bronze is needed to keep his memory green. The charm 

 of the true, kindly, cultured genileman which we all felt when in his com- 

 pany will not readily be forgotten. But we have done well in the erection 

 of this Fountain, a tribute to his memory — a tribute, as has been happily 

 expressed upon the stone, of affection from his friends, that may speak to 

 those who come after of the love and the admiration we had for him ; to 

 tell them that James Fletcher was a man who did much good in his day 

 and generation. His work was of incalculable benefit to the farmer and 

 fruit-grower of this country in combating weed, fungus and injurious 

 insect. Probably of even more value, however, was his inspiring enthu- 

 siasm, that power to awaken in others an interest in the study of animate 



