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logical Society of Ontario, and every year since he has been 
elected to hold some office in the Society, being four times vice- 
president, and for three years, 1886-88, president. In 1879 he 
was one of the originators of the Ottawa Field Naturalists’ 
Club, the most successful society of the kind in the Dominion, 
and more recently he suggested and by his influence and energy 
accomplished the promotion of the important Association of 
Economic Entomologists of North America. 
The first official recognition of his attainments was in 1885, 
when he was appointed Honorary Entomologist to the De- 
partment of Agriculture at Ottawa, and in that capacity, though 
much hampered by his duties in the Library of Parliament, 
he published a valuable report on the injurious insects of the 
year. Two years later the position of Entomologist and Botan- 
ist to the Experimental Farms of the Dominion was con- 
ferred upon him. 
In the years that have gone by, he has done an enormous 
amount of valuable work, as shown in his annual reports and 
evidence before the standing committee of the House of Com- 
mons on Agriculture, his voluminous correspondence with 
farmers all over the Dominion, and his addresses to Farmers’ 
Institutes and other gatherings. 
No one in Canada has done so much to instruct the people 
in a practical knowledge of the worst insect foes and the best 
methods of dealing with them, while probably no one but he 
could have given the Province of Manitoba the information and 
advice that he has repeatedly afforded by his lectures, addresses 
and publications on the noxious weeds of that portion of the 
Dominion. . 
He was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by 
Queens College and was a fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science; fellow of the Canadian 
Royal Society; fellow of the London Linnean Society and of 
the Entomological Society of America. He was first vice- 
president of the latter Society in 1907 and took a great interest 
in its formation. In 1891 he was the president of the Associa- 
tion of Economic Entomologists and always took an active 
part in its affairs. 
