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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



adapted to the climate of the Province 

 of Ontario. He has also taken a lively in- 

 terest in other departnients of horticulture 

 and in forestry, and has done much to 

 awaken an interest in these matters in 

 the Pro\ance in which lie lives. 



" Having combined fruit growing on a 

 large scale with the study of entomology, 

 he has had special opportunities for be- 

 coming acquainted with those insects 

 which" are injurious to fruits, and has 

 recently published a most useful and 

 beautifully illustrated volume of over 400 j 

 pp., on this subject, entitled, " Insects 

 Injurious to Fruits," in which all the 

 practical information extant has been 

 brought together and supplemented by 

 the results of his extensive experience. i 



" In 1880 the Government of Ontario ap- 

 pointed a special commission to inquire into 

 the progress and condition of agriculture 

 in the Province. Mr. Sauuders was ap- 

 pointed one of the commissioners, and 

 was charged with the special duty of in- 

 quiring into the subjects of fruit growing 

 and forestry, insects and insectivorous 

 birds, and bee-keeping. The results, 

 mainly of his work, are embodied in a 

 volume of over 350 pages, which was 

 published by the Ontario Government as 

 one of the series of reports presented by 

 the commission. 



" He has been an active member and 

 Fellow of the American Association for 

 the advancement of Science for many 

 years, and has filled several important 

 offices in that learned body. Two years 

 ago when the Royal Society of Canada 

 was organized, he was selected by the 

 Marquis of Lome as one of the original 

 twenty members, of whom the biological 

 section of that important society is com- 

 posed. 



" In other fields than natural history 

 and horticulture, he has also achieved a 

 desirable reputation. As a chemist and 

 pharmacist he is well knoAvn throughout 

 the United States as well as Canada, and 

 has filled almost every post of honor in the 

 American Pharmaceutical A.ssociation, of 

 which he acted as President in 1877-78, 

 and delivered his retiring address at the 

 meeting held in Atlanta, Ga., in Novem- 

 ber, 1878. Many of the papers contri- 

 buted by him on pharmacy have been 



re-published in England and translated 

 and published in a number of Continental 

 journals ; and on account of the service he 

 has rendered in this department he was 

 elected, in 1874, an honorary member of 

 the Pharmaceutical Council of Great 

 Britain, a position he holds for life. Fur- 

 ther honor was conferred upon him in 

 1883, when he was elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal Microscopical Society of Lon- 

 don, England. Within a few months he 

 has received from the Duke of Mantau 

 and Monferrat a handsome and valuable 

 gold medal, known as the Mantau Medal, 

 in acknowledgment of valuable services in 

 the interest of Natural Science. In 1882 

 Mr. Saunders was appointed by the Gov- 

 ernment of Canada Public Analj^st for 

 the western part of the Province of On- 

 tario, in which capacity he has already 

 done good service in detecting and expos- 

 ing adulterations, especially in articles of 

 food. Tliree years ago, on the organiza- 

 tion of the Medical Department of the 

 Western University in London, Out., he 

 received the appointment of Professor of 

 Materia Medica, a chair he fills with 

 credit to himself and to the school. 



" The multitude of duties with which 

 the subject of our notice is charged has 

 not lessened his devotion to horticulture ; 

 he has worked for many years, and is still 

 conducting series of experiments in the 

 cross-fertilization of fruits and flowers ; 

 among the results already obtained are 

 several good raspberries, gooseberries and 

 grapes " 



Our As.sociation may well feel proud 

 in having a gentleman of such broad 

 culture and at the same time so pro- 

 foundly interested in all the objects for 

 which it exists, to preside over its 

 deliberations and promote its interests. 

 We do not appreciate the self-denying 

 labor wliich our President performs in 

 his efforts to ailvance the welfare and 

 enlarge the happiness of every grower 

 of fruit and every lover of flowers. 

 Long may he live to bless the land with 

 his unselfish laV)ors, and when from 

 them he rests coming generations will 

 bless the memorv of his name. 



