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and had the pleasure of finding one day a large Polyporus having 

 grown from the large sclerotium below. Photographs were taken 

 of this by Mr. Shutt. Dr. W. G. Farlow of Cambridge, Mass., 

 had at the same time been making the same experiments, and 

 while pictures from here were sent to him, some of his were on 

 the way here. He determined the species as Polyporus 

 tuheraster. 



G. ElFRIG. 



MEETING OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 



ONTARIO. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario, held at Guelph, on October 31st and November 1st, 

 the 44th since the founding of the Society, three of the local 

 members of the Club were honoured by being elected to the 

 executive of the Society. Dr. James Fletcher was unanimously 

 elected President for the ensuing year, Mr. C. H. Young was 

 appointed Director of the Society for District No. 1, and Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson was elected as the Delegate to represent the 

 Society at the next meeting of the Royal Society of Canada. 

 Papers of a scientific and economic nature were presented by 

 the above gentlemen, and also bv Mr. H. H. Lyman, of Montreal, 

 Rev. Prof. Bethune, of Guelph, and Mr. C. W. Nash, of Toronto, 

 all members of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. In addition 

 to papers by various contributors, two important lectures were 

 delivered; "one on "Work in Massachusetts to control the 

 Brown-tail and Gypsy moths," by Mr. A. H. Kirkland, of 

 Boston, who has been connected since the beginning with this 

 work, the most extensive and successful experiment in practical 

 entomology which has ever been attempted; and the other by 

 Dr. E. M'. Walker, of Toronto, on "Collecting and rearing 

 Dragonflies at the Georgian Bay Biological Station in 1907." 

 Both of these lectures were well attended and were listened to 

 with great interest and profit by all present. 



