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Few men ever made so many loving friends in all walks of 2ife; every 

 on© wlio came to know him could not fail to become warmly attached to 

 him. There are many sad hearts grieving at his loss all over the Dominion 

 of Canada and many, too, in widely scattered places in the United States. 

 Old and young, rich and poor, learned or ignorant, children and their eld- 

 ers, H made no difference — he had a kindly word for each one and most can 

 treasure in their memories a kindly deed as well. When he addressed a 

 meeting he captivated his audience at once and when he joined an excursion 

 of nature students all were eager to be with him, and learn from him some 

 of the secrets of the woods and fields that he knew so well. We shall not 

 see his like again, but we may all feel that it was good for us to have known 

 him — his memory will long live in our hearts — his noble words and generous 

 deeds will be happy recollections for many a year to come. 



Dr. James Fletcher was born at Ashe in the County of Kent, England, 

 on March 28th, 1852. He was educated at King's School, Rochester, and 

 came to Canada in 1874 to fill the position of a clerk in the Bank of British 

 North America. Finding the work uncongenial after two years, he gave 

 it up and became an assistant in the Library of Parliament at Ottawa. All 

 his spare time he devoted to Botany and Entomology and became as years 

 went on a recognized authority in each of thse branches of natural science. 

 This led to his appointment as honorary Dominion Entomologist and Botan- 

 ist and a year or two later to his taking up the work of these departments 

 at the newly established experimental farm. This was in 1887 and for 

 twenty-one years he has been a highly valued assistant to Dr. Saunders, the 

 director, and long since became known throughout North America as one of 

 the ablest scientific men of the day in his special departments. 



In 1878 he became a member of the Council of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, and every year since he has been elected to hold some 

 office in it, being four times Vice-President, and President for three years, 

 from 1886 to 1888 and again from 1906 to the time of his death, when he had 

 just been re-elected for another year. His first contribution to the Society's 

 publications was an article on Canadian Buprestidae, which was published in 

 the Annual Report for 1878, and his first contribution to "The Canadian 

 Entomologist" appeared in January, 1880. During all the years that have 

 followed no volume of either publication has been issued without some 

 valuable articles from his pen. 



In 1879 he was one of the originators of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' 

 Club, the most successful society of the kind in the Dominion, and more 

 recently he suggested, and by his energy and influence accomplished, the 

 formation of the important Association of Economic Entomologists of North 

 America, of which he was elected President in 1892. He was also one of the 

 original Fellows of the recently formed Entomological Society of America, 

 and was First Vice-President last year. In 1886 he became a Fellow of 

 the Linnaean Society, of London, and in 1896 he received the degree of 

 LL.D., Honoris causa, from Queen's University. 



In 1885 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; in 

 1895 he became President of Section IV., which is devoted to Geological and 

 Biological Sciences. For many years he was Honorary Treasurer of the 

 Society, and for the last two years Honorary Secretary. To the 

 transactions of the Royal Society he contributed the following papers : Pre- 

 sidential Address, 1895, on Practical Entomology; Recent Additions to the 

 list of Injurious Insects of Canada, 1899; The Value of Nature Study in 

 Education, 1901; Descriptions of some new Species and Varieties of Can- 

 adian Butterflies, 1903; Notes on the Preparatory Stages of some Species of 

 Canadian Lepidoptera, 1907. 



