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A list of his contributions to scientific and agricultural journals would 

 occupy many pages, if such a list could be completely carried out. His 

 most valuable publications were bis annual reports on the work of his depart- 

 ment at the Central Experimental Farm and the Bulletins in connection 

 with it, in which he gave accurate detailed descriptions of a large number 

 of injurious insects, and also his papers in the Annual Reports to the Legis- 

 lature of the Entomological Society of Ontario. Two years ago he com- 

 pleted an admirable work on the Farm Weeds of Canada, containing 

 descriptions of all the most important weeds that are a trouble to agricul- 

 turists throughout the Dominion; a handsome quarto volume illustrated 

 with 56 beautiful coloured plates. 



Not only with his pen, however, did he perform useful work, but with 

 his voice as well. He was in great demand as a public speaker at Agricul- 

 tural, Horticultural, and Fruit-growers' conventions, meetings of Farmers' 

 Institutes and other gatherings. On these occasions he at once secured the 

 attention of his audience and charmed them with his graceful language and 

 lively humour. No one else, indeed, has done so much for Canada in 

 instructing the people in a practical knowledge of their worst insect foes 

 and the best methods of dealing with them. His work has thus been of 

 vast importance not only to those directly interested in the products of the 

 soil, but indirectly to all the dwellers within the domains of this wide Do- 

 minion. 



Though so fully occupied with scientific work he yet found time for 

 other things. He was one of the most efficient members of St. Luke's Hos- 

 pital board ; for many years lay-reader and superintendent of the Sunday 

 school in Holy Trinity Church, Archville, a suburb of Ottawa; and an 

 active member of the St. Andrew's Brotherhood. His religious life as a 

 devout son of the Church of England was known perhaps to but few amongst 

 his intimate friends, though manifested in many ways through his goodness 

 of heart; he lived and died an earnest. God-fearing man, devout and upright, 

 filled with unobtrusive piety, a sincere Christian indeed "in whom was no 

 guile." 



While we deplore the loss that we all feel we have individually sus- 

 tained, w© desire to express to his sorrowing family, Mrs. Fletcher and her 

 two daughters, the deepest sympathy with them in their sad bereavement. 

 To them the loss is beyond all words, but it may afford them a ray of comfort 

 to know that he whom now they mourn was so widely beloved, admired and 

 respected and that so many friends share in their grief and are filled with 

 sorrow for him who is gone. 



C. J. S. Bethunb. 



Dr. L. 0. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington, a friend of many years standing, writes 

 as follows : 



"Dr. Fletcher's services to his country were very great. He had a wonder- 

 ful grasp of a very broad field in Entomology, and was one of the best- 

 informed men of his time on the intricate and manifold aspects of economic 

 Entomology. His reports were sound and practical, and as a public speaker 

 before assemblages of agriculturists and horticulturists he was unexcelled. 

 His address years ago before the National Geographic Society in Washing- 

 ton, on the Canadian Northwest, was one of the most perfect lectures I ever 



