32 The Ottawa Naturalist. [May 



season, and the various papers presented during the two days' 

 session. Among the latter are several by members of the Ottawa 

 Field-Naturalists' Club who attended the meeting, viz. : Hydroecia 

 micacea in Canada, by Arthur Gibson; Some Beetle Haunts by 

 an Amateur Botanist, by F. J. A. Morris, Port Hope; Notes on 

 the Occurrence of Lachnosternas in 1908, and, Collecting with a 

 Lantern-trap in 1908, by J. D. Evans, Trenton, Ont. ; The Straw- 

 berry Weevil, b}^ Prof. W. Lochead, Macdonald College, Que.; 

 The Farmer's Woodlot, by Rev. T. W. Fyles, Levis, Que; Life 

 History of Euchaetias ore gonensis, by H. H. Lyman, Montreal; 

 and. Injurious Insects in Ontario in 1908, by Rev. Prof. Bethune, 

 Guelph. Two excellent papers by Dr. E. P. Felt, Albany, N.Y., 

 The Economic Importance and Food-habits of American Gall 

 Midges, and. The Interpretation of Nature, also appear. An 

 article of more than ordinary value is the Catalogue of the Gall 

 Insects of Ontario, by T. D. Jarvis, Guelph, which arranges the 

 species which he has found in his several years of collecting, under 

 their host plants, and furnishes means of identification by the 

 galls. A bibliography of references completes his useful treat- 

 ment of the subject. The Entomological Record, which has for 

 some years been contributed by James Fletcher and Arthur 

 Gibson as a regular feature, again appears, presenting in a con- 

 cise way the most valuable of the results of Canadian collectors' 

 activities during the year. Also, the loss which entomology has 

 suffered in the removal by death of two of its foremost representa- 

 tives, Dr. Fletcher, late President of the Society, and Dr. W. H. 

 Ashmead, of Washington, is given suitable recognition in brief 

 references to their respective careers. 



H. G. 



OBITUARY. 



THE LATE REV. CANON BURMAN, B.D. 



The death of Canon W. A. Burman, which occurred on 

 January 20th, is a heavy loss to the people of Winnipeg and of 

 the Northwest. For so many years he has been among us that 

 his place will indeed be difficult to fill. 



The late Canon, who was a member of the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club for many years, was an Englishman by birth 

 and came to Manitoba in the late seventies. He entered the 

 ministry in 1879 and soon became well known and loved for his 

 work among the Sioux Indians. He was made Rural Dean of 

 Brandon in 1886, and was given charge of the Rupert's Land- 

 Industrial School (Indian) in 1889. In 1893 he came into Win- 

 nipeg as incumbent of St. Peter's, combining with his duties there 



