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processes of submergence and elevation are still visible at many 

 places and even in well recorded time portions of our continent are known 

 to be rising from tlie sea while others are gradually sinking. The 

 latter is well observed in some portions of the coast of Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick, where the remains of forests which grew above the 

 sea are now found some 30 to 40 feet below high watermark. Vol- 

 canic atrencies are still at work forming or removing mountains. 

 The fearful destruction and disturbances of several years ago in 

 one of the islands of the Java archipelago are still fresh in our 

 memories, when a whole mountain was blown into the sea with 

 such force as to send an ocean wave completely round the globe ; while 

 during the past summer the frightful eruption in Japan buried many 

 square miles of country under liquid mud, with the destruction of 

 hundreds of lives. Such instances enable us to realize in some slight 

 degree the enormous forces with which nature does her vrork. 



I have in this sketch omitted any marked reference to the geology 

 of the surrounding district. This field has been ably worked by Mr. 

 Ami, who I am sure will at the next meeting entertain you thoroughly 

 with an account of the various geological features in this immediate 

 vicinity. 



EXTOMO LOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



As announced in our September number, the annual meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario was held in Ottawa ujoon the 5th and 6th 

 October. The meetings were well attended, and several useful and 

 interesting papers were read. The President's annual address was de- 

 livered in the City Hall by Mr. James Fletcher, of this Club, on the 

 evening of Friday, 5tb, before a large audience, including Hon. Chas. 

 Drury, Minister of Agriculture for Ontario; Mr. John Lowe, Deputy 

 Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion ; Prof. Saunders, and many 

 others. It treated of the practical application of the science of Entomo- 

 logy for keeping in check the attacks on cultivated crops by injurious 

 insects. A resume of the insect injuries of the year was also given, 

 and attention was drawn to new works which had been published. 

 Some simple apparatus used for caging and breeding insects was exhi- 

 bited and explained. 



