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College, Windsor, but did not, I believe, proceed to a degree. 

 Became a partner in his father's dry-goods business in 1872, 

 but retired in 1898, since when he devoted himself to farming 

 at 'Riverbank', Preston, near Dartmouth, to sports, and 

 literary pursuits. Was a keen lover of the rod and gun 

 and became vice-president of the Game and Inland Fisheries 

 Protection Society of N. S. Contributed many sporting 

 sketches to 'The Badmington', 'Country Life', 'The Empire 

 Review', 'World Wide', 'Chambers's Journal', etc. Also author 

 of an interesting work entitled 'Farm. Cottage, Camp and 

 Canoe in Maritime Canada' (1908) which appeared about 

 the time of his death, and which should be read along with 

 Hardy's 'Forest Life in Acadie'. He took a great interest in 

 all that related to wild animal life, and was elected a member 

 of the Institute in December, 1887, but retired about 1902. 

 He published but one paper in our Transactions, a list of 

 Nova Scotian Butterflies, a subject to which he had given 

 considerable attention. (See Morgan's 'Canadian Men and 

 Women of the Time,' 1912). 



Hugh Fletcher, B. A., geologist, — Born at London, 

 England, 9th December, 1848,, son of Hugh Rose Fletcher, 

 a mining engineer of Scotch birth; died at Lower Cove, N. S., 

 23rd September, 1909. About 1858 he came to Montreal, a 

 year after his father. In 1860 the family moved to the Bruce 

 Mines in Lake Huron, and the fall of 1862, to Toronto. 

 Educated at Toronto University, where he was a silver 

 medallist in natural science, and otherwise distinguished 

 himself. Became connected with the gold mines at Tangier, 

 where his father was in charge. Joined the Geological Survey 

 of Canada on 1st September, 1872, and took up work in the 

 Sydney coal-fie d, and up to the time of his death, was em- 

 ployed in mapping and writing reports on the geology of Nova 

 Scotia, having worked out in detail the structure of the Island 

 of Cape Breton, and the counties of Guysborough, Antigonish, 

 Pictou, Cumberland, Colchester, Hants, Kings and Annapolis. 



