. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 82 Canadian Forestry Journal, August-September, 1914. The Canadian Forestry Association could not hold its intended Conven- tion, and some other lines of work will be shut off, but the remaining lines that are not shut off must be worked, so that a year hence, fifty years hence, the cause will be further ahead than it is today. Keeping up the regular institutions of the coun- try is not such spectacular work as some other kinds, but it is just as necessary to the well-being of the state. DR. WILLIAM SAUNDEES. Dr. William
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 82 Canadian Forestry Journal, August-September, 1914. The Canadian Forestry Association could not hold its intended Conven- tion, and some other lines of work will be shut off, but the remaining lines that are not shut off must be worked, so that a year hence, fifty years hence, the cause will be further ahead than it is today. Keeping up the regular institutions of the coun- try is not such spectacular work as some other kinds, but it is just as necessary to the well-being of the state. DR. WILLIAM SAUNDEES. Dr. William Saunders, , , , for twenty-five years Director of Dominion Experimental Farms, died at his residence in Lon- don, Ont., on September 13, in his seventy-ninth year. He had been ill for about two years. Dr. Saunders' work for agriculture in Canada is so well known that it is necessary only to refer to it briefly. Born in Devon- shire, England, he came to Canada when he was twelve years old. He was in early life a wholesale and manu- facturing chemist, and was one of the founders of the Ontario College of Pharmacy, of which he was president for two years. He was founder and president for several years of the Ontario Entomological Society, and for tliirteen years edited the Cana- dian Entomologist, He was president of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Asso- ciation, of the Association for the Pro- motion of Agricultural Science, and of the Biological Section of the Royal Society of Canada, and was made an honorary member of many important societies. In 1885 he was selected by the Do- minion Government to inspect experi- mental farms in different countries, and in the three years following the Government established the five orig- inal experimental farms and appoint- ed him Director, which post he held till about two years ago, when failing health compelled his retirement. In that period Dr. Saunders built up an international reputation, especially in the field of cereal
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