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on Cheviot, rearing three birds out of four eggs. The birds and nest 

 had been under careful observation to prevent molestation until the 

 young were able to get clear away. Between Dunsdale and Southern 

 Knowe, the latter place a small fan near the junction of the Lambden 

 Bun with the College, we observed dying about the hill sides in the 

 sun, numbers of Phi/tometra aenea and Pi/rausta osttinalis. A walk 

 through a beautiful district, down the magnificent College Burn, from 

 Southern Knowe to Kirknewton Station on the Wooler line, finished 

 our little tramp. — G. Nicholson, 26, Lancaster Street, Newcastle. 

 September 28th, 1910. 



srURRENT NOTES 



We are pleased to congratulate Sheffield University in having 

 honoured so excellent a biologist as Mr. W. Bateson by conferring on 

 him the honorary degree of D.Sc. The meeting of the British 

 Association at Sheffield was made an occasion for the bestowal of 

 honorary degrees on a number of eminent men of science at a special 

 congregation of the University held on September 6th. The first 

 occupant of the Chair of Biology at Cambridge University was one of 

 this select company. 



On July 19th, 1910, at 4.30 p.m., the unveiling of the James 

 Fletcher Memorial Fountain, took place at the Central Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa, by the Hon. Sydney A, Fisher, Minister of Agriculture. 

 The ceremony was a complete success, and, besides a number of 

 distinguished visitors from a distance, official representatives from the 

 Royal Society of Canada, the Entomological Socitety of Ontario, and 

 other learned societies, assembled with the members of the Ottawa 

 Field Naturalists' Club (under whose auspices the Fountain was 

 erected), and a large number of local visitors, took part in the 

 proceedings. The speakers included, besides the Hon. S. A. Fisher, 

 Mr. E. R. Cameron, K.C., Chairman of the Fletcher Memorial Com- 

 mittee, the Rev. Dr. Bethune, the learned Professor of Entomology at 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, and for so long editor of the 

 Canadian Entomologist, Dr. Wm. Saunders, C.M.G., Director of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farms, Dr. W. D. Le Sueur, Secretary of the 

 Royal Society of Canada, Mr. F. T. Shutt, Chief Chemist of the 

 Dominion Experimental Farms, whilst Mr. R. B. Whyte spoke on 

 behalf of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, with which James 

 Fletcher had so intimate a connection. The Memorial Fountain, an 

 excellent picture of which appears in the Canadian Kntomoloc/ist for 

 September, 1910, bears the inscription — 



1852 — 1908. 



James Fletcher, F.R.S.C. 



A Pioneer Canadian Naturalist. 



A tribute of affection from the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club 



and his many friends. 



As Dr. Bethune says, the Memorial has been erected less as tribute 

 to his scientific attainments, then as a token of our love for the 

 man himself, and the devoted affection in which we all held him. 

 As a man of Kent, all Kent naturalists will think of James Fletcher 

 with pride, whilst his adopted country adds to that pride the intimate 

 feeling of kindly affection. 



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