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magazine appeared in January, 1880. During all tlie years that have 

 followed, no volume of eidier i)ublicalion has been issued without some 

 valuable articles from his pen. 



In 1879 he was one of the originators of the Otiawa Field Naturalists' 

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

 recently he suggested, and by his energy and influence accomplished, the 

 formation of the important Association of Economic Entomologists of 

 North America, of which he was elected President in 1892. He was also 

 one of the orginal Fellows of the recently-formed Entomological Society 

 of America, and was First Vice-President last year. In 1886 he became 

 a Fellow of the Linn^ean Society of London, and in 1896 he received the 

 degree of LL.D., Honoris causa, from Queen's University. 



In 18S5 ^""^ ^^'^s elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada ; in 

 1895 he became President of Section IV, which is devoted to Geological 

 and Biological Sciences. For many years he was Honorary Treasurer 

 of the Society, and for the last two years Honorary Secretary. To the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society he contributed the following papers : 

 Presidential Address, 1895, on Practical Entomology; Recent Additions 

 to the List of Injurious Insects of Canada, 1899; The Value of Nature 

 Study in Education, 1901 ; Descriptions of Some New Species and 

 Varieties of Canadian Butterflies, 1903 ; Notes on the Preparatory Stages 

 of Some Species of Canadian Lepidoptera, 1907. 



A list of his contributions to scientific and agricultural journals would 

 occupy many pages, if such a list could be completely carried out. His 

 most valuable publications were his annual reports on the work of his 

 department at the Central Experimental Farm and the Bulletins in con- 

 nection with it, in which he gave accurate detailed descriptions of a very 

 large number of injurious insects, and also his papers in the annual reports 

 to the Legislature of the Entomological Society of Ontario. Two years 

 ago he completed an admirable work on the Farm Weeds of Canada, 

 containing descriptions of all the most important weeds that are a trouble 

 to agriculturalists throughout the Dominion ; a handsome quarto volume, 

 illustrated with 56 beautiful coloured plates. 



Not only with his pen, however, did he perform useful work, but with 

 his voice as well. He was in great demand as a public speaker at 

 Agricultural, Horticultural and Fruit-growers' conventions, meetings of 

 Farmers' Institutes and other gatherings. On these occasions he at once 

 secured the attention of his audience, and charmed them with his graceful 



