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noteworthy was his work in crossing varieties of grain and producing 

 new and improved kinds. One alone of these, the Marquis Wheat, 

 is believed to have added millions of dollars to the value of the 

 wheat products of the prairie country. All information thus 

 acquired has been freely afforded to the farmers by distributions of 

 seed, and bulletins and reports on all manner of subjects. 



The ever-growing work and its extension in every Province of 

 the Dominion began at length to tell upon the physical strength of 

 the man who was the mainspring of it all. His vitality, owing to 

 advancing years and the inroads of an insidious disease, began to 

 fail, and he felt the time had come for his retirement. Accordingly 

 he resigned about three years ago and went with his wife and 

 daughter for a pleasure trip to Europe — his first real holiday since 

 he went to Ottawa. His friends expected him to return with much 

 improved health, but it was ordered otherwise; he became very ill 

 in England and never entirely recovered. He had completed his 

 life work, his duty was well done, and he has left the record of great 

 deeds accomplished and of vast and widespread benefits conferred 

 upon the people of the land. This account of a remarkable man 

 would be incomplete without a reference to his beloved wife, who 

 was a true helpmeet both in small things and in great, ever cheerful 

 and encouraging, full of kindness and hospitality, perfectly un- 

 assuming and free from all affectation, she is loved and esteemed 

 by all who know her, and her children and friends rise up and call 

 her blessed. To her in her desolation and to her family in their 

 sense of loss our sympathies go out in the fullest measure. 



The ability and work of Dr. Saunders have been recognized 

 in many gratifying ways. In 1905 he received the distinction of 

 Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, conferred 

 by his Majesty King Edward; honorary LL.D. from Queen's Uni- 

 versity in 1896 and from the University of Toronto in 1904; the 

 Mantua gold medal for distinction in scientific knowledge. He 

 was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London and the 

 Royal Microscopical Society; an honorary member of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society of Great Britain and of the Highland Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland ; and an ordinary member of a large number of 

 Scientific Societies in the United States and Canada. 



C. J. S. Bethune. 



