222 The Ottawa Naturalist. [Ja.n. 



Rev. G. Eifrig, a Member of the Council: — 



Although I did not have the good fortune tojknow our late 

 lamented Dr. Fletcher so long as some of the other speakers of this 

 evening had, yet, the time — -five years— was long enough to let 

 our friendship ripen into a very cordial and sincere one. In fact, 

 his character was such a lovable and unselfish one, that to know 

 him was to love him and become a friend to him. I think his 

 very unselfishness was the key to his great popularity and the 

 general sorrow caused by his taking off. He was a lover of men 

 and a lover of nature, and in this connection I may bring out 

 another side of his many-sidedness, and that is his keenness as an 

 observer of birds. I well recall with what pleasure he would let 

 me know by letter or telephone when he saw the first arrivals of 

 the spring migrants, his first song sparrow, or bluebird, or red- 

 winged black bird, etc. In fact, he rendered some very material 

 service to ornithology in this vicinity, for the first and only posi- 

 tive records of the Lapland Longspur {Calcarius lapponicus) 

 and the Shore Lark {Otocoris alpestris) in this neighborhood 

 were made by him in May 1890. It is my deep conviction that we 

 have sustained a great loss, the whole country, the Experimental 

 Farm System, Ottawa, and last, but not least, our Club. 



Mr. E. R. Cameron, Registrar of the Supreme Court of 

 Canada : — 



The gentlemen who have so far addressed you this evening 

 have been more or less associated with Dr. Fletcher's scientific 

 work. I should like the opportunity of saying a word from what 

 may be called a layman's standpoint or that of the amateur 

 naturalist. I have known of Dr. Fletcher's work from a national 

 standpoint, as every other intelligent Canadian has, and of his 

 great services, especially to the farming community and I have 

 been able to appreciate in a humble way the high quality of his 

 scientific attainments. No one could know Dr. Fletcher without 

 being compelled to say : " Here is a great man. " 



We find in the history of all races that at times nature pro- 

 duces a specially great individuality. When the history of this 

 period comes to be written long after we have passed from the 

 scene. Dr. Fletcher's name will stand forth prominentlv, and 

 identified with the great advance in scientific agriculture and 

 horticulture. Something has been said as to the form which a 

 memorial to Dr. Fletcher's memory should take. Personally, I 

 strongl}^ prefer that we should aim at establishing a bursar}' or 

 scholarship in one of our Canadian Universities to encourage 

 research work in entomology and botany, the subjects which are 

 identified with Dr. Fletcher's life-work. This might be styled 



