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already a great deal of published matter available to students. 

 Until the present time this was almost impossible, and a great 

 many boys and girls were deterred from studying insects by the 

 lack of available literature. Among helps of a general nature 

 available to the local members of our Club, mention must be made 

 of the collection of insects now being built up at the Experimental 

 Farm. The fine collection in the Geological Survey Museum con- 

 sists mostly of Lepidoptera, although there are a few specimens in 

 other orders. The collection at the Experimental Farm is a 

 general one, and great pains have been taken to have the prelim- 

 inary stages represented. Dr. Fletcher and his assistants are 

 always pleased to welcome visitors and exhibit the collections to 

 any who wish to see them. They are also particularly anxious to 

 help any beginners who may apply to them. This is likewise the 

 case, of course, with all the Leaders who have private collections 

 and are always willing to show them, or to hel-p others in 

 identifying their specimens. 



Many rare or interesting species have been reared or collected 

 during the past year. Several of our members living at points 

 distant from Ottawa have helped materially in this work. Rare 

 species of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera have been sent from 

 Vancouver Island, by the Rev. G. W. Taylor, and from Kaslo, 

 in the Rocky Mountains, by Mr. J. W. Cockle. Similar help has 

 been received from Mr. W. Mcintosh, in St. John, N B. Eggs of 

 Arctians, which have been reared to the perfect moths, were received 

 from Mr. A. Kwiat, of Chicago, and some of the stem-boring 

 larvae of the genus Hydra'cia, were sent from Rye, N.Y., by Mr. 

 Henry Bird. Mention is made of this merely to draw attention to 

 the fact that every member may do good work, whether interested 

 in Entomology or not, by sending living specimens of insects by 

 mail to the Leaders at Ottawa. Living insects, if packed in close 

 tin boxes, without "holes for them to breatlie through," with 

 some of the food plant, may be sent by mail from all parts of 

 Canada within a reasonable distance of railways, and will travel in 

 perfect safety. 



The two most noticeable injurious insects of the year in this 

 district were : (i) The Small White Cabbage Butterfly, Pieris 

 rapcB, which did much harm in cabbage, turnip and rape fields 



