96 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Several resolutions were passed, among which were (1) a resolution requesting the 

 publication of the proceedings aB a bulletin of the Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture and (2) expressing familiarity with the efforts of the State of Massachusetts 

 to exterminate the gypsy moth and commending the results already accomplished. 



The election of officers resulted as follows: — President, Herbert Osborn, Ames, Iowa ; 

 1st Vice-president, Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln, Neb.; 2nd Vice president, C. P. Gillette, 

 Ft. Collins, Colo.; Secretary and Treasurer, C. L. Marlatt, Washington, D. C. 



James Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C, F.L.S. 



We are happy to be able to prefix to our twenty eighth Annual Report, an excellent 

 portrait of Dr. James Fletcher, whose name is a household word among Entomologists 

 not only in Canada, but throughout North America, and in many parts of the world 

 besides. Born and educated in England, Dr. Fletcher came to this country when a young 

 man as a junior officer in the Bank of British North America, and soon began to devote 

 his leisure hours to the study of insects and plants. Find the work of a bank by no 

 means congenial to his literary and scientific tastes, he obtained a position as assistant in 

 the Library of Parliament at Ottawa. It was not long before his talents and attain- 

 ments in botany and entomology became widely known, chiefly through his contributions 

 to the Canadian Entomologist and the Annual Reports of our Society. Hig first paper 

 in the latter was an article on Canadian Buprestidse, which was published in 1878, while 

 his first contribution to the Magazine appeared in January 1880. During all the years 

 that have followed no volume of either publication has been issued without some valuable 

 articles from his pen. 



In 1878 he became a member of the Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 and every year since has been elected to hold some office in the Society, being four timeB 

 Vice-president and for three years, 1886-8, President. In 1879 he was one of the origin- 

 ators 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 formation 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 Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, and in that 

 capacity, though much hampered by his duties in the library, he published a valuable 

 report on the injurious insects of the year. Two years later his present position of 

 Entomologist and Botanist to the experimental farms of the Dominion was conferred 

 upon him. In the ten years that have now gone by, he has done an enormous amount of 

 valuable work as shown in his Annual Reports and Evidence before the Standing Com- 

 mittee of the House of Commons on Agriculture, his voluminous correspondence with 

 farmers and fruit growers all over the Dominion, and his addresses to Farmers' Institutes 

 and other gatherings. No one in this country has done so much as he to instruct the 

 people in a practical knowledge of their 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 the advice that he has repeatedly afforded by his lectures, addresses and 

 publications on the noxious weeds of that portion of the Dominion. All his friends will, 

 vre are sure, unite with us in the earnest wish that he may long be spared to carry on his 

 admirable work which is of such vast importance, not only to those directly interested in 

 the products of the soil, but to all the dwellers throughout this wide Dominion. 



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