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C|e dlanabiati Entomologist 



VOL. XVIII. LONDON, OCTOBER, 1886. No. 10 



EDITORIAL. 



It will be with deep regret, we are sure, that the readers of The Can- 

 adian Entomologist will receive the information that Mr. Saunders, who 

 has for so many years so ably filled the position of Editor of this maga- 

 zine, has felt himself obliged to resign for the present all active connection 

 with it. His resignation has been occasioned by his appointment to the 

 important and arduous office of Director of the Experimental Farm Sta- 

 tions of the Dominion. 



For some time last year Mr. Saunders was engaged in visiting many 

 of the Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Farms in the United 

 States, and prepared an exhaustive report upon his observations, which 

 was laid before the Dominion Parliament at its last session, and received 

 the highest commendation. During the present year he visited England 

 in charge of the Canadian fruit display at the Colonial and Indian Exhi- 

 bition in London, and since his return he undertook and carried out suc- 

 cessfully the experiment of shipping to England a large variety of fruits 

 and vegetables in special refrigerators, constructed under his direction in 

 two of the principal ocean steamships sailing from Montreal. These 

 multiform occupations, involving almost constant absence from home, 

 while they attest the versatility of Mr. Saunders' powers, will account to 

 our readers for the occasional want of punctuality in the issues of this 

 magazine during the last twelve-month. 



With regard to his fitness for his new position, we may quote an 

 extract from the Ottawa correspondence of the London Free Press : 



" Mr. Saunders is a gentleman singularly well quahfied for the position 

 to which the Government has appointed him. He was for years President 

 of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association — a position which he held by 

 reason of his superior knowledge of all that appertains to the cultivation 

 of fruit. He is recognized as one of the leading chemists of the 

 Dominion, and was at one time one of the chief officers of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been for years the 



