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MR. ROBERT RANDALL McLEOD, of Brookfield, Queens County, 

 died at Winthrop, Massachusetts, in February of the present year. 

 Mr. McLeod was a man of high intelligence and wide reading. 

 He was master of ^an "excellent English style, and perhaps no con- 

 temporary Nova Scotian author was so well-known to the reading 

 public of the Province. He was besides a true lover of nature and 

 was the author of a ln the Acadian Land," a charming series of 

 nature sketches. He was also the author of a work on the resources 

 of Nova Scotia, entitled "Markland." 



MR. CHARLES PICKFORD, of Halifax, was never identified with 

 ; v ,he scientific work of the Institute. But he will be remembered 

 by older members as having done our society the service of attend- 

 iing to its financial affairs during the treasurer ( ship of the late 

 W. C. Silver. 



DR. JAMES FLETCHER, of Ottawa, who died in November, 1908, 

 was one of the foremost Canadian naturalists and was the author 

 of numerous papers on the insect life of Canada. Since 1887 

 he was entomologist and botanist at the Central Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa. He was also sometime Honorary Secretary and 

 Treasurer of the Royal Society of Canada, of which he was a 

 Fellow. A man of pleasing personality as well as an accomplished 

 scientist his loss will be felt by a much wider circle than that of 

 his personal friends. 



When in last September the death of MR. HUGH FLETCHER 

 was announced through the press, many members of this Society 

 and many others in all sections of the Province felt a sense of 

 personal loss. His death occurred at Lower Cove, Cumberland 

 County, on the 23rd of September. Mr. Fletcher entered the 

 service of the Geological Survey of Canada about thirty years 

 ago, after a brilliant undergraduate course in the University of 

 Toronto. Much of his professional work was done in Nova Scotia, 

 and na one else possessed so intimate a knowledge of the geology 

 of this Province as he. His was the ideal scientific temperament 

 painstaking, accurate and conscientious as an observer, cautious 

 in reaching his conclusions, tolerant of the opinions of others, but 

 firm in his adherence to what he himself believed to be the truth. 

 To the mining interests of the province he rendered notable and 

 widely acknowledged services, and to pure science his work is of 



