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He was the author of important books and memoirs. His chief 

 published work is the well-known book on the house-fly of which 

 there were two editions. A smaller book on the same subject appeared 

 later as one of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. 

 His departmental publications consist of a series of annual reports 

 (1910-1916), and bulletins. Chief among the latter are those dealing 

 with the Honey Bee and the Large Larch Sawfly. Very recently he 

 completed an important work on the conservation of the wnld life of 

 Canada, the manuscript for which is now ready for the press. The 

 publication in 1919 of an important volume on the insects collected 

 by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, was brought about 

 under his direction. 



His recognition as one of the foremost entomologists of the world 

 was freely conceded. In the year 1913 he was elected a Fellow 

 of^the Entomological Society of America; in 1915 he was elected 

 President of the American Association of Economic Entomologists; 

 in 1913 he accepted the Presidency of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London 

 (England), a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of 

 London (Eng.), and was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society 

 for the Protection of Birds, London (Eng.). 



His election as a Fellow of the Royal Society took place in 1913. 

 In the following year he was elected honorary treasurer of the Society. 

 From the moment that he entered our Society he devoted himself to 

 its problems, and the Council had come to depend upon him for real 

 work in its business as well as for advice. 



His death was tragic in its suddenness. He had attended the 

 meetings of the Commission of Conservation; at Montreal, on Febru- 

 ary 19 and 20, at which he presented an important paper on "Fur- 

 bearing Animals, their Economic Significance and Future." 



Soon after his return to Ottawa, on the 20th, he was taken 

 seriously ill with influenza; this soon developed into pleural pneu- 

 monia, and he died about 11 p.m. on February 29, 1920. 



He seemed to be on the threshold of a long career, in which added 

 years would bring even greater success, and would fulfil all that he 

 was destined to accomplish. His gifts were varied, and his sym- 

 pathies deep and general. He touched life at so many points that one 

 cannot think that his interest ever flagged. His knowledge and ap- 

 preciation of the arts and belles lettres were finely balanced by a warm 

 love of nature, and this led him into enthusiasms for our wild life. 

 His ideal habitation was always surrounded by a garden, and every 

 foot of soil was made to yield either use or beauty. There was in all 



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