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water, growing fruit and ornamental trees of all kinds, selecting hardy varieties, 

 improving the size and quality of any fruits suited to the climate of the Western 

 Provinces, beekeeping, experiments and observations in economic entomology, plant 

 pathology, and various other matters pertaining to the welfare and benefit of the 

 farming community. Especially noteworthy was his work in crossing varieties of 

 grain and producing new and improved kinds; one alone of these, the Marquis 

 wheat, is believed to have added millions of dollars to the value of the wheat 

 products of the prairie country. All information thus acquired has been freely 

 afforded to the farmers by distribution of seed, and bulletins and reports on all 

 manner of subjects. 



The ever-growing work and its extension in every Province of the Dominion 

 began at length to tell upon the physical strength of the man who was the main- 

 spring of it all. His vitality, owing to advancing years and the inroads of an 

 insidious disease, began to fail, and he felt that the time had come for his retire- 

 ment. Accordingly he resigned about three years ago, and went with his wife and 

 daughter for a pleasure trip to Europe — his first real holiday since he went to 

 Ottawa. His friends expected him to return with much improved health, but it 

 was ordered otherwise; he became very ill in England, and' never entirely re- 

 covered. He had completed his life work, his duty was well done, and he has 

 left the record of great deeds accomplished, and of vast and widespread benefits 

 conferred upon the people of the land. This account of a remarkable man would 

 be incomplete without a reference to his beloved wife, who was a true helpmeet 

 both in small things and in great. Ever cheerful and encouraging, full of kind- 

 ness and hospitality, perfectly unassuming and free from all affectation, she is 

 loved and esteemed by all who know her, and her children and friends rise up 

 and call her blessed. To her, in her desolation, and to her family in their sense 

 of loss our sympathies go out in the fullest measure. 



The ability and work of Dr. Saunders have been recognized in many gratify- 

 ing ways. In 1905 he received the distinction of Companion of the Order of St. 

 Michael and St. George, conferred by His Majesty King Edward ; Honorary LL.D. 

 from Queen's University in 1896, and from the University of Toronto in 1903 ; the 

 Mantua Gold Medal for distinction in scientific knowledge. He was a- fellow of the 

 Entomological Society of Londoii and the Eoyal Microscopical Society; an hono- 

 rary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and of the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and an ordinary member of a large number of 

 scientific societies in the United States of America. 



C. J. S. B. ^ 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORD, 1914. 



Arthur Gibson, Chief Assistant Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, 



Ottawa. 



Every year new names of persons residing in various parts of 'Canada are 

 added to the list of those who collect insects, and owing to the increased interest 

 which is taken in the collection and study of insects, it seems desirahle to again 

 p'Oint out the chief reasons for the publication of this annual Entomological 

 Record. As stated in an early issue of the Record, there is no object in publish- 

 ing year after year long lists of insects which have ibeen taken within their 



