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language and lively humour. No one else, indeed, has done so much for 

 Canada in instructing the people in a practical knowledge of their worst 

 insect foes and the best methods of dealing with them. His work has 

 thus been of vast importance, not only to those directly interested in the 

 products of the soil, but indirectly to all the dwellers within the domains 

 of this wide Dominion. 



Though so fully occupied with scientific work, he yet found time for 

 other things. He was one of the most efficient members of St. Luke's 

 Hospital Board ; for many years lay-reader and superintendent of the 

 Sunday School in Holy Trinity Church, Archville, a suburb of Ottawa, 

 and an active member of the St. Andrew's Brotherhood. His religous life 

 as a devout son of the Church of England was known, perhaps, to but few 

 amongst his intimate friends, though manifested in many ways through 

 his goodness of heart ; he lived and died an earnest God-fearing man, 

 devout and upright, filled with unobtrusive piety, a sincere Christian 

 indeed, "in whom was no guile.'' 



While we deplore the loss that we all feel we have individually 

 sustained, we desire to exjjress to his sorrowing family, Mrs. Fletcher and 

 her two daughters, the deepest sympathy with them in their sad bereave- 

 ment. To them the loss is beyond all words, but it may afford them a 

 ray of comfort to know that he whom now they mourn was so widely 

 beloved, admired and respected, and that so many friends share in their 

 grief and are filled with sorrow for him who is goiie. 



C. J. S. Bethune. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology in the 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington, a friend of many years' stand- 

 ing, writes as follows : 



''Dw Fletcher's services to his country were great. He had a 

 wonderful grasp of a very broad field in entomology, and was one of the 

 best-informed men of his time on the intricate and manifold aspects of 

 economic entomology. His reports were sound and practical, and as a 

 public speaker before assemblages of agriculturalists and horticulturists 

 he was unexcelled. His address years ago before the National Geographic 

 Society in Washington, on the Canadian Northwest, was one of the most 

 perfect lectures I ever heard. He was known, admired and loved all 

 through the States. I fact, I have never known a man who had so many 

 absolutely devoted friends as Dr. Fletcher. His energy, his enthusiasm, his 



