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tended the meetings of the Commission of Conservation, 

 at Montreal, on February 19 and 20, at which he pre- 

 sented 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 pneumonia, and he died about 11 p. m., on Febru- 

 ary 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 sympathies deep and general. 

 He touched life at so many points that one cannot think 

 that his interest ever flagged. His knowledge and apprecia- 

 tion 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 his work a raie 

 combination of earnestness, with lightness of touch. Highly 

 characteristic, too, was a fine sense of humour, which kept 

 all things in their proper relation. His personality was of 

 that even bearing that finds the best in all men, and gives 

 duly the best in itself. Even his casual acquaintances had 

 sorrow when he died. To those who knew him well there 

 will remain a deep regret; to those who received fully the 

 intimate charm of his personality in familiar intercourse 

 there cannot be any mitigation of his loss, for he was a 

 peerless friend." 



Elizabeth Hewitt. 



RocKUFFE Park, Ottawa. 



