> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 255](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259759) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2783-1) LSID 2783-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6133987) QID Q6133987 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Fletcher, James|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Fletcher, James (1852-1908), English-born Canadian botanist and naturalist, born 28 Mar 1852 in Ashe nr. Wrotham (Kent), educated at King's College, Rochester, employed by the Bank of British North America and posted from London to Canada 1874, joined the Library of Parliament as an accountant 1876, founding member, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 1879, hon. entomologist, Dominion Dept. of Agriculture 1884, appointed Dominion entomologist and botanist 1886, and served as chief of Entomology and Botany Division 1887-1908, LL.D. 1896 Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ontario, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, F.L.S., died 8 Nov 1908 in Montreal. **Abbreviated name**: *Fletcher* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fletcher*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DAO|DAO]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection CAN|CAN]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OTB|OTB]] \[[[Collection OTF|OTF?]]\]. – Corr. in the Public Archives, Ottawa. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 203; Barnhart 1: 550; BL 1: 142; BM 2: 583, 6: 328; CSP 12: 242, 15: 18; Desmond p. 226, ed. 2: 251; Ewan Pap. p. 70; IH 2: 199; Kew List 23; Lenley p. 169; LS 8829, 8830, 33.336-33.341; NW p. 45 (index); TL-1: 154-155; TL-2/1: 845-846, Suppl. 4: 609 (index); Tucker 1: 251; Zander ed. 17: 948. #### Biofile - Anon., Proc. Roy. Soc. Canada, ser. 3, 3: xlv-xlviii. 1910; Canad. Entomol. 42: 285-290. 1910 (frontisp. =memorial fountain) \[reprinted from Ottawa Naturalist Aug 1910\]; A catalog of the Edward L. Greene collection: 124. 1986. - Bethune, C.J.S. et al., 1908. Canad. Entomol. 40: 432-436. (portr.) - Boivin, B. & W.J. Cody, 1955. Canad. Field-Naturalist 69: 79-82. \[analysis of *Fl. ottaw.*\] - Brunton, D.F., 2004. Canad. Field-Naturalist 118: 1-38. \[hist. Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club\] (portr.) - Carpenter, M.M., 1953. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 286. - Castonguey, S., 2004. Canad. Hist. Rev. 85.1: 1-34. (electronic version) - Cody, W.J. et al., 1986. Systematics in Agriculture Canada at Ottawa 1886-1986, Historical Ser. 28: 79 (English index), 81 (French index). (portr., frontisp.) - Derraugh, R., 1955. Entomol. Div. Newsl. Ottawa, Ont. 33(2): 2-3. (n.v.) - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 174; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 227; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 381. - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 126. - Estey, R.H., 1983. Canad. J. Pl. Pathol. 5: 120-124. (n.v.) - Gibson, A., 1909. Ottawa Naturalist 22: 207-211. \[JF as entomologist\] - Gibson, A. & H. Groh, 1909. Ottawa Naturalist 22: 227-233. (bibl.) - Gibson, A. et al. (eds.), 1909. Ottawa Naturalist 22: 189-234. \["James Fletcher, LL.D., Memorial Number"\] (portrs., frontisp., *pl. 6*) - Howard, L.O., 1907. Science, ser. 2, 28: 916-917. (obit.) - Howard, L.O., 1930. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 84: 109-114, 183-187, 372, 512. (portr.) \[hist. applied entomol.\] - Mallis, A., 1971. American Entomologists: xvii, 113-116. (portr.) - Pringle, J.S., 1995. Canad. Field-Naturalist 109: 379. (index) - Riegert, P.W., 1995. *In*, Dictionary of Canadian Biography 13: 347-348. - Saunders, W., 1909. Ottawa Naturalist 22: 192-196. \[JF's contributions to agriculture\] - Whyte, R.B., 1909. Ottawa Naturalist 22: 206-207. #### Note *Fl. ottaw.*... \[1880-1893\] (TL-2/1, nr. 1805), has been issued as microfiche: *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing) \[1987?\], 2 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "1628-1629"). *Copy*: MO. #### Composite works - (1) Co-author with G.H. Clark, *Farm weeds Canada*... (1906), see TL-2/Suppl. 4, nr. 26.453, which can be augmented as follows: *Illus*.: Criddle, Norman (1875-1933), entomologist and illus., see IH 2: 144. *Reprint* \[*Ed. 1*, of 1906\]: 2000,... Ottawa (Algrove), p. \[1\]-103, *56 pl*. (col. lith.). *Copy*: (n.v.). – In series, Classic reprint series. *Reprint* \[*Ed. 2*, of 1909\]: 1923,... Ottawa (F.A. Acland, printer), p. \[1\]-192, *76 pl*. (col. lith.). *Copies*: HH (n.v.), NY. - (2) Co-author with G.H. Clark, *Mauv. herb. Canada*... (1906), see TL-2/Suppl. 4, nr. 26.454 which can be augmented to include: *Illus*.: Criddle, Norman (1875-1933), entomologist and illus., see IH 2: 144. *Ed. 2* \[*rev., enlarged*\]: 1909,... Ottawa (Impr. du Gouvernement), p. \[1\]-196, *76 pl*. (col. lith.). *Copy*: NY.