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easy to, rear, developed rapidly and none had been lost, but I doubtless made 

 the mistake of not separating them sufficiently as they approached maturity 

 for on my arrival home on the morning of 9th August I found that a 

 choleraic disease had broken out among them and several were dead. I 

 immediately separated them into a number of jars which I had washed with 

 a disinfecting solution of permanganate of potash, putting those that seemed 

 quite healthy by themselves and those under suspicion by themselves. 



On 12th August one of those under suspicion spun a rather flimsy gray 

 cocoon weaving in the hairs of its body, but by 21st August all the others 

 had died in spite of all the care that was lavished upon them. "Afterwards 

 I found that the one which had spun its cocoon had not had sufficient vital- 

 ity to pupate. 



I thus succeeded in working out the life history of the species, though 

 my cabinet was not enriched with any bred specimens. 



Diameter of larval faces of the first six stages were .41, .58, .80, 1.12, 

 1.38, 1.67 mm. 



DR. JAMES FLETCHER. 



It is with the most profound regret that we record the death of our very 

 dear friend. Dr. James Fletcher, which occurred on Sunday morning, 

 November 8th. For the last two years his health had not been entirely sat- 

 isfactory and for more than a twelve month he had been troubled more or 

 less with an internal hemorrhage which caused him much inconvenience and 

 discomfort at times, but which he did not regard as particularly serious. 

 His cheery habit of mind caused him to treat lightly symptoms which would 

 in most cases have excited much alarm. In the middle of September he 

 went out to British Columbia on his annual visit and was absent from home 

 for about six weeks. On his return his colleagues noticed that he had noi 

 benefited as much as usual by the trip, and that his appearance was by no 

 means robust. But with characteristic energy he at once set to work to make 

 the arrangements for the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 Canada, which he desired should be one of the most successful in its history. 

 As President for the second ^-ear in succession, he expected to retire from 

 office, but fully counted upon being present at Guelph and occupying the 

 chair at the various sessions which were held on November the 5th and 

 6th. During the preceding week, however, he wrote saying that he was 

 going to Montreal to consult a specialist, and might after all be unable to 

 attend. He went down on Saturday the 31st of October, and was at once 

 sent to the Royal Victoria Hospital, there to prepare for an operation. To 

 the writer he sent a letter the following day expressing his great disappoint- 

 ment at being laid up and prevented from coming to Guelph, but full of 

 confidence in the wonderful power of modern surgery and with apparently 

 no fears as to the result. The operation took place on the following Satur- 

 day, but he failed, owing to his weak condition, to rally from it and the 

 next morning he died. The operation revealed that he had been suffering 

 for some time from a malignant tumour which had sapped his vitality and 

 would very soon in any case have brought his life to a close. Up to the 

 end he was cheerful and uncomplaining, free from despondency or anxiety 

 about himself, and full of the happy optimism which had always been one 

 of his charming characteristics. 



