446 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Object. Promotion of the interests of the profession by a systematic interchange 

 of ideas and experience, and maintenance of a high standard of qualifications 

 through the control of the examinations by members of the profession. 



Meetings. Annual general meeting in Toronto, commencing on 4th Tuesday in Feb. 

 Three meetings of Council annually. Examination begins on 2d Monday in Feb. 



Membership. 310 active (annual dues, $4) ; 8 associate (annual dues, $2). 

 Publications. 



Annual report . . . and proceedings at the . . . annual meeting-, no. 

 1-22, 1886-1907. Toronto, [1886-1907.] 8. 



1886-99 have title Proceedings ... at ... annual meeting. Numbering of 

 annual meetings starts afresh after incorporation. Volume numbering 

 begins with no. n. 



General index 1886-96: in no. n. 

 Price: 5oc. per number. 



Distribution. Exchange with engineering or surveying societies in America. Free 

 distribution to libraries. 



Entomological Society of Ontario. 



Address. Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Out. Librarian and 

 Editor : Rev. C. J. S. Bethune. 



History. Founded at Toronto, Apr. 16, 1863, under the name Entomo- 

 logical Society of Canada; incorporated in 1871 under present name. 

 Headquarters removed from Toronto to London, Ont., in 1872 ; thence 

 to Guelph, Ont., in June, 1906. Branches at Quebec 6 (established 1864, 

 reorganized 1897), Montreal (organized 1873), Toronto (founded 1896 as 

 Toronto Entomological Society, becoming Toronto branch of the society 

 in 1897). A branch organized at London, Ont. in 1864, was merged 

 in the parent society in 1881 ; one at Kingston, founded in 1871, had 

 only a brief existence. The British Columbia Entomological Society, 

 founded Jan. 1902, was affiliated in 1905 as the B. C. branch of the 

 society. In 1890, sections in botany, ornithology, microscopy and 

 geology were established at London, Ont. The geological section sus- 

 pended operations in 1903, while the ornithological section became the 

 Mcllwraith Ornithological Club in the same year; the other 2 sections 

 have been discontinued since the removal to Guelph. The Legislative 

 Assembly of Ontario appropriates $1,000 a year for the work of the 

 society. 



Object. Improvement and advancement of entomological science. 



The name given in titles of Annual reports for 1876, 1879-81 is Entomological 

 Society of the Province of Ontario. 



*>PubL: Annual report . . . Quebec, 1867. 8. 



^Headquarters at Vancouver, B. C. Secretary-Treasurer : R. V. Harvey. Quarterly 

 meetings. 24 members. Pubi: Bulletin, no. 1-4. Mar.-Dec. 1906. q. 



