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the Fletcher Memorial Bursary. I would recommend that 

 before this meeting breaks up a committee be appointed to take 

 this matter into consideration. 



Mr. T. J. MacL.\ughlin: — 



The various papers and addresses delivered here this evening 

 have touched very beautifully upon almost every phase of Dr. 

 Fletcher's works and his character, but Prof. Shutt, 

 in describing him as a friend, has sounded another chord, and 

 a very important one, in the anthem of praise of this good and 

 great man, in which we are all ready and anxious to join. As one 

 who knew Dr. Fletcher intimately for considerably more than a 

 quarter of a centurv, I can heartily endorse all that Mr. Shutt has 

 said of him as a true friend. 



Dr. Johnson- once said, in his criticism of one of the minor 

 poets, that he was interesting to posterity only as a friend of an- 

 other poet, and I was thinking while Mr. Shutt was speaking, that 

 although the poet 's friends considered this harsh criticism, some 

 of us here to-night would not object to being placed in a relative 

 position to that of the poet thus criticised and to have it said of 

 us that we are interesting only as friends of Dr. Fletcher. For my 

 own part I would be perfectly satisfied to be considered worthy of 

 such a distinction. Whether I have been a friend to Dr. Fetcher 

 or no, is not, of course, for me to say. but I can say and do know 

 that he was a true and noble friend to me during all' the years that 

 I knew him — a friend in need and at all times, whom I loved as a 

 brother and whose memory I shall ever dearly cherish. 



Dr. Fletcher was not only a friend and companion of the 

 learned and scientific, but of all, irrespective of position or con- 

 dition in life. The high, the low, the rich and the poor met 

 with him on common ground. 



It may well be considered that the Ottawa Field-Natur- 

 lists' Club has sustained a severe loss in the death of him who 

 was one of its founders. We old members of the Club, all well 

 know that his great personality and enthusiasm carried it through 

 many a severe crisis, but it is to be hoped that it is now old 

 enough and strong enough to long survive him and continue the 

 work to which he was so earnestly devoted. 



Dr. Saunders' address on the value of Dr. Fletcher's services 

 in connection with the Experimental Farms — his efforts in the 

 cause of science and agriculture — affords an estimate of the loss 

 which the country has stistaincd in his death. Indeed it would 

 scarcelv be possible for any man to work and experiment so inces- 

 santly as Dr. Fletcher did for so many years, without making 

 inany valuable discoveries and adding much to science along the 

 lines of his profession. I am not qualified to speak of Dr. Flet- 



