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Vol. XXXI. 



LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1899. 



No. II. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Society was held in London 

 on the nth and 12th of October. On the former day a very interesting 

 and important conference and discussion took place in the afternoon, on 

 the San Jose' Scale, which was participated in by Prof James, Deputy 

 Minister of Agriculture ; Dr. Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist and 

 Botanist ; Mr. J. Dearness, one of the Special Commissioners on the Scale ; 

 Prof. Lochhead, Ontario Agricultural College; Prof Webster, Wooster, 

 Ohio ; Mr. Fisher, Provincial Inspector ; and others. A public meeting 

 of a popular character was held in the evening, at which the President, 

 Mr. Lyman, read his annual address, and Dr. Fletcher, Professors Webster 

 and Lochhead, and the Rev. Drs. Fyles and Bethune took part. The 

 second day was devoted to the general business of the Society and the 

 reading and discussion of papers. A full account of the proceedings will 

 be given in the annual report of the Society. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year : — 



Fresideni—^GV. T. W. Fyles, D. C. L., F. L. S., Souih Quebec. 



Vice-President — Professor Wm. Lochhead, Ontario Agricultural 

 College, Guelph. 



Secretary — William E. Saunders, London. 



Treasurer — J. A. Balkwill, London. 



Directors: Division No. i — W. H. Harrington, F. R. S. C, Ottawa. 

 Division No. 2 — J. D. Evans, Trenton. 

 Division No. 3 — D. G. Cox, Toronto. 

 Division No. 4 — James Johnson, Bartonville. 

 Division No. 5 — R. W. Rennie, London. 



Directors ex-officio (ex-Presidents of the Society). — Professor Wm. 

 Saunders, LL. D., F. R. S. C, F. L. S., Director of the Experimental 

 Farms, Ottawa; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., D. C L., F. R. S. C, 

 London; James Fletcher, LL. D., F. R. S. C, F. L. S., Entomologist 

 and Botanist, Experimental Farms, Ottawa; John Dearness, I. P. S., 

 London ; Henry H. Lyman, M. A., Montreal. 



