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cationist, ex-officio, as the highest. Personally, I can testify that of 

 all thenon-professionaleducationists with whom I have associated 

 during the past fifteen years, I owe the deepest debt of gratitude 

 to Dr. Fletcher. I regarded him as almost indispensable to my 

 development and I know that his death will be a genuine embar- 

 rassment in taking away a source of assistance and 

 inspiration in my studies of nature. Such is my weak tribute 

 to this very great man. 



As the death of Dr. Fletcher marks the first break among the 

 members of the original Council of the Club, organized nearly 

 thirty years ago, it was deemed appropriate that the first Presi- 

 dent of the Club, Lieut. -Col. Wm. White, should preside at 

 this meeting held in honour of the memory of a leading member 

 of the original Council. I shall therefore ask Lieut. -Col. White 

 to take the chair. g 



Lieut. -Col. White on taking the chair, said: — We are 

 assembled this evening for the purpose of paying tribute to one of 

 our earliest members, a well-loved companion and friend of every 

 one of us; a man who was preeminently qualified for the position 

 he held. 



We have lost a dear friend and the country has lost a valued 

 servant — whose name is a household word in the homes of the 

 agriculturists of the Dominion. There are here this evening 

 many members who of late years have been more closely asso- 

 ciated with Dr. Fletcher, than I have been, owing to advanc- 

 ing age, and therefore without further words from myself, I shall 

 call on several members of the Club to address you this evening, 

 commencing with Dr. Saunders, Director of the Dominion Experi- 

 mental Farms. 



DR. FLETCHER 'S'WORK, ITS INFLUENCE ON 

 CANADIAN AGRICT' LTURE. 



By Dr. W. Saunders 



In this meeting called to honour the memory of our esteemed 

 friend and fellow worker the late Dr. James Fletcher it is my 

 privilege to say a few words on the bearing of his work on the 

 advancement of agriculture. Prior to the organization of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farms, Dr. Fletcher acted as Dominion 

 Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, a title conferred 

 on him in 1884, and, in this capacity, he published two reports. 

 His first report was published in 1884, and a second in 1885. 

 These reports dealt chiefly with injurious insects, and they had a 

 considerable circulation. At that time he was also serving the 



