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devoted all his spare time to Botany and Entomology, which led 

 to his appointment as Honorary Dominion Entomologist and 

 Botanist, followed soon afterwards by work in these departments 

 at the newly-established Central Experimental Earm in 1887. 

 For 21 years he was assistant to Dr. W. Saunders, C.M.Gr., 

 Director of the Earm. 



In 1878 he became a Councillor of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, and continued to hold office, being President 1886-88, 

 and again in 1906 to the time of his death. His first ])aper was 

 on Canadian Buprestidse in 1878, and his contributions to science 

 were thenceforward frequent and valuable. In 1879 he helped to 

 found the Ottawa Eield Naturalists' Club, the most successful of 

 the kind in the Dominion, and later on he succeeded in founding 

 the Association of Economic Entomologists of Xorth America, of 

 which he was President in 1892 ; he was also one of the original 

 Eellows of the Entomological Society of America. On the 

 3rd June, 1886, he was elected Eellow of our Society, and in 1896 

 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Queen's University, 

 Kingston, Ontario. 



Erom 1885 he had been a Fellow of the Eoyal Society o£ 

 Canada, had been President of the Biological and Cieologicai 

 Section, Hon. Treasurer, and, for the last two years of his life, 

 Hon. Secretary, and several most suggestive papers from his pen 

 were published in its Transactions. Other valuable memoirs were 

 his annual reports on the work of his department, and in other 

 (serials. Two years ago he issued a work on the weeds which 

 trouble farmers throughout the Dominion, in 4to, with 46 coloured 

 plates. He was much in demand as a lecturer, and was especially 

 successful in securing and holding the attention of his audiences. 

 In this way his influence has been widely felt in arousing people 

 to the best methods of dealing with iusect pests. 



Eor many months his health had been failing, and more or less 

 internal haemorrhage had troubled him, but did not awake alarm. 

 In the autumn of last year he was busy with preparation for the 

 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada, to be 

 held at Guelph, Ontario, but the week before the gathering he 

 went to consult a specialist at Montreal. He was at once sent to 

 the Eoyal Victoria Hospital, and a week later underwent an 

 opei'ation for internal tumour, but failed to rally from it, and died 

 the following morning, Sunday, 8th November, 1908, aged 06. 



The writer is indebted to an appreciative obituary by Prof. 

 C. J. S. Bethuue in the ' Canadian Naturalist,' xl. 1908, for the 

 for^-going account, where also will be found a portrait of our 

 deceased Eellow. [B. D. J.] 



EE.A?fcis Blackwell Eorbes, whose death was announced in the 

 ' Daily Telegraph ' of November 20 last year, was an American. 



In 1857 he went out to China as attache to Mr. Eeed, the 

 Plenipotentiary of the United States of North America, but soon 



