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left little to be desired, and it was his most conscientious 

 scrutiny of facts which has given character to his various 

 writings, as being thoroughly reliable statements. The 

 same thoughtful care and attention to details was evident 

 in the expressions contained in his last letter, indited only 

 two days before his death, of the near approach of which 

 he was conscious. 



Mr. Gibb died of pneumonia at Cairo, Egypt, on the 

 8th March, 1890. To all who knew him his death is a per- 

 sonal loss ; to his more intimate friends, it is the loss of a 

 brother ; to his country, for whose walfare he nobly and 

 generously toiled, and in whose interest he was making a 

 prolonged tour of foreign lands when death overtook him, it 

 is the removal of one who filled an important place in our 

 material progress, one who could not well be spared. 



Although not a scientific man, he had given such close 

 and accurate attention to fruit culture as to make him 

 eminent among the pomologists of this continent, while his 

 name was well and favorably known throughout Europe, 

 It is therefore desirable that his work in the interests of 

 improved horticulture should receive consideration. 



Mr. Gibb was a life member, and in 18*79-81, vice-prosi- 

 dent for Quebec of the American Pomological Society; 

 corresponding member of the Mississippi Valley Horticul- 

 tural Society ; corresponding member of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society ; honorary member of the JSTova 

 Scotia Fruit Growers' Association ; member of the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal, and a member and, at the time 

 of his death and for several years previous, vice-president 

 of the Montreal Horticultural Society and Fruit Growers' 

 Association of the Province of Quebec. He founded the 

 Abbotsford Fruit Growers' Association, was its leading 

 spirit to the day of his death, and at various times held 

 most of its leading offices. He took a most active part in the 

 recent efforts to establish a Botanic Garden in the city o* 

 Montreal, and was at all times one of the leading and most 

 useful members of the Montreal Horticultural Society, to 

 whom his loss comes as a most serious one. At the time 



