DurhamOil on board, 15 x 15.5cm Feint inscriptions on board and frame versoProfessor Michael S. Quinn of Mount Royal University, Calgary describes Fothergill as 'one of the most important pioneering naturalists in Canada and one of the best of the period anywhere.'[1]1] Michael S. Quinn, Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Environmentalists and Biologists, p.282 (Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1997)