132 LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN 



himself to the study of Natural History. His first efforts 

 were applied to Botany and in 1862 he published his 

 Flore du Canada, but later gave his attention chiefly to 

 Entomology, beginning in 1874 the publication of his ex- 

 tensive Faune entoniologique dn Canada, a work that may 

 be conunended as évidence of extraordinaiy zeal and assi- 

 duity, while its errors may be condoned in considération 

 of the isolation iu which its author worked. The NaHi- 

 raliste Canadien, inaugurated in 1S68, was also a work of 

 love and was carried on uninterruptedly until 1891. The 

 Abbé Provancher died in 1892, aud in him there passed 

 away one of the keeuest observers and most zealous natu- 

 ralists that Canada bas prodnced, one who, uuder more fa- 

 vorable conditions, would hâve attained high rank in the 

 roU of distinguished naturalists. " 



A PROPOS DU MONUMENT PrOVANCHER 



Une o-énéreuse souscription de PEntomological Society 

 of Ontario, pour le monument Provancher, nous a mis à 

 Paise pour satisfaire à tous les accessoires de la réalisation 

 de cette œuvre. Ce concours de la puissante association on- 

 tarienne, que nous a valu l'intervention du Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, entomologiste du Dominion, nous a fait le plus 

 o-rand plaisir, et nous en sommes profondément reconnais- 

 sant à l'un et à l'autre. 



En nous remettant la souscription de l'Entom, Soc. 



of Ontario, le Rév. C. J. S. Bethune, "éditer emeritus " du 

 Canadian Entoinologisl, de London, Ont., nous écrit (le 4 

 mars): 



"... It would be well, I think, to publish in the Cana- 

 nadian Entomologist Sl short account of the Mémorial, and 

 ask for contributions from those intefested in Provancher's 

 work. There are several in the United States who would 

 probably be glad to share in so laudable undertaking." 



