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Hon. Chas. Drury spoke in high terms of tlie work being carried 

 on by the Society, an appreciation which he had shown by coming all 

 the way from Toronto to attend the meeting. 



Sir J. A. Grant proposed a vote of thanks in his usual happy and 

 eloquent manner, and surprised many of the audience by his knowledge 

 of entomology. Some years ago Sir James possessed a very nice col- 

 lection of insects ; but being much engaged with his professional duties 

 he decided that his cases would be of more use if placed where they 

 could be examined more freely than in his own house, and generously 

 presented them to the museum of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific 

 Society. 



Prof. Saunders, in seconding the vote of thanks, spoke of the pro- 

 gress of the Society, from the time it was first organized, by a few 

 earnest workers, down to its present influential and stable condition. 



Dr. Bethune urged upon the audience the pleasures and beneficial 

 results obtainable from the study of insects, and particularly drew 

 attention to the remai-kable work accomplished by Miss Eleanor A. 

 Ormerod, the Entomologist of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 

 land, He pointed out that ladies were in many ways better suited for 

 carrying out some of the delicate and tedious observations than men 

 were, and hoped that more would join in carrying on the work of the 

 Society. 



The election of officers took place upon the morning of the Glh, 

 and i"esulted as follows : 



President James Fletcher, Ottawa. 



Vice-President E. Baynes Reed, London. 



Secretary-Treasurer W. E. Saunders, London. 



Lihiarian E. Baynes Reed, London. 



Curator Henry S. Saunders, London. 



Council J. ]M. Denton, London ; J. Alston Moffatt, Hamilton ; 

 Gamble Geddes, Toronto ; W. H. Harrington, Ottawa ; Rev. T. W. 

 Fyles, South Quebec ; (and all former Presidents, who are ex-officio 

 members of the Council). 



Editor of the Entomologist Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope. 



Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada H. H. Lyman, Montreal. 



