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A second edition was issued in 1892, and the author had begun the 

 preparation of a third, when his prolonged illness rendered him 

 incapable of accomplishing any literary work. A list of his pub- 

 lished articles, bulletins, reports, etc., fills six columns of the 

 Bibliography in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 

 for 1894, and a large number have been added since. In 1881 he 

 had been appointed by the Governor-General of Canada, the Marquis 

 of Lome, one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society, and in 

 1906 he was elected President, having thus risen to the highest 

 position of honour for scientific work that can be attained in this 

 Dominion. Twenty years ago it was said of him by an American 

 writer that "by painstaking study and observation he has risen 

 to the topmost pinnacle of fame as an entomologist, horticulturist 

 and experimental agriculturist." 



A very important change took place in the life and work of 

 Dr. Saunders in 1886, when he was appointed Director of the 

 Experimental Farms of the Dominion, and left his home and busi- 

 ness in London to reside in Ottawa. During the previous year, he 

 was commissioned by the government to visit various Experiment 

 Stations in the United States and to report upon agricultural and 

 experimental work in Europe and America, (n this new sphere of 

 labour he applied himself with his wonted vigour, and in the course 

 of a few years was mainly instrumental in bringing these establish- 

 ments into thorough working order and into a high standard of 

 excellence. Anyone who saw the Ottawa Farm in the autumn of 

 1886 — a large tract of bare land, with workmen busily employed 

 in levelling and removing stumps and boulders with dynamite — 

 and then visited it ten or fifteen years later (as did the writer), 

 could not fail to be impressed with the wonderful work accomp- 

 lished by the genius of Dr. Saunders in turning a waste into a 

 scene of beauty and a hive of industry. Here have been carried on 

 under his direction a great variety of experiments in breeding and 

 feeding live stock, testing soils and water, growing fruit and orna- 

 mental trees of all kinds, selecting hardy varieties, improving the 

 size and quality of any fruits suited to the climate of the Western 

 Provinces, beekeeping, experiments and observations in economic 

 entomology, plant pathology, and various other matters pertaining 

 to the welfare and benefit of the farming community. Especially 



