XXVill PROCEEDINGS. 
The total number of his communications to scientific societies, each 
of which represents some addition to knowledge, is as follows :—In 
Botany, 93 ; in Zoology, 4; in Chemistry, 5; and in subjects difficult 
to classify, 5. These, in themselves, form a far larger body of work 
than it is the privilege of most scientific men to have been able to exe- 
cute ; and when one thinks in addition of the work involved in the 
long series of reports, treatises, ete., of a practical kind which his pen 
produced, and of the articles in reviews and other periodicals and in 
cyclopedias, of which no mention has been made above, one begins to 
form some estimate of the enormous industry, patience, perseverance, 
and minute attention to detail, of which our late professor was capable. 
A complete list of his published papers, as well as of his books, 
reports, etc., up to the end of 1894, will be found in the “ Bibliography 
of the members of the Royal Society of Canada,” compiled by Dr. J. G. 
Bourinot, and issued as part of Vol. XII of the Transactions of that 
Society. A list of the papers communicated to the Institute during the 
last four years, including six which do not appear in the Royal Society’s 
list, will be found in the Index to Vol. VIII of our Transactions. 
As to the value of his scientifie work, it would be presumptuous in 
me to offer an opinion. He, doubtless, reached no wide generalizations. 
It is given to few men to do so. But he added greatly to our knowledge 
of plant life, and made especially large contributions te our knowledge 
of the geographical distribution of plants. Whether or not he pos- 
sessed the ability to do what is called, in German phrase, epoch-making 
work, it is impossible to say ; for his lot was cast in circumstances in 
which such work was practically impossible. But, although he was 
unable to pursue his investigations with the applances and by the 
methods which he would have selected, had the colleges with which he 
was connected possessed adequate equipment, he nevertheless resolutely 
did what he could; and he has, consequently, left behind him a mass of 
useful work accomplished, which forms a monumentum wre perennius. 
Of the value of his work as Secretary of Agriculture, it is difficult 
to form any estimate. It consisted not so much in the excellence of the 
Reports which it was his duty to issue from time to time,—though they 
were models of conscientious skill,—or in the judiciousness of his official 
communications with the Agricultural Societies of the Province,—though 
there is no doubt as to the ability with which these communications 
were conducted,—as in the quiet influence which he exerted over the 
