28-1: THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF ONTARIO. 



The annual meeting of the Society was held in its rooms in Victoria 

 Hall, London, on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 25th and 26th, the 

 President, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, occupying the chair. 

 The reports of the Council, Treasurer, Librarian and Curator, the Mon- 

 treal Branch, the Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada, and those of 

 the Botanical, Geological, Microscopical and Ornithological Sections were 

 read and approved, and were ordered for publication in the Annual 

 Report to the Legislature. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year : — 



President — Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., D. C. L., Port Hope. 



Vice-President — W. Hague Harrington, Ottawa. 



Secretary — W. E. Saunders, London. 



Treasurer — J. M. Denton, London, 



Directors — Division i — James Fletcher, F. R. S. C, Ottawa. 

 " 2 — J. D. Evans, Sudbury. 

 " 3 — Gamble Geddes, Toronto. 

 " 4 — A. H. Kilman, Ridgeway. 

 " 5— J A. Moffat, London. 



Librarian and Curator — J. Alston Moffat, London. 



Editor of the Canadian Entomologist — Rev. Dr. Bethune. 



Editing Committee — H. H. Lyman, Montreal; J. Fletcher, Ottawa; 

 Rev. T. \V. Fyles, South Quebec. 



Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada — The President. 



Auditors — J. H. Bowman and W. E. Saunders, London. 



A public meeting was held on Wednesday evening, at which the Presi- 

 dent delivered his annual address, in which he dealt especially with the 

 chief insect attacks of the year, and the best modes of dealing with them. 

 Papers were read and addresses given by Mr. Lyman on " Can Insects 

 Survive Freezing?" and " Pamphila Manitoba" ; by Rev. T. W. Fyles on 

 '■ The Larch Saw-fly — Nematus Erichsonii ", and " The Larva of Gelechia 

 gall3e-diplopai)])us and its Parasites " ; by Mr. Harrington on " Insects 

 Collected and Observed in Japan " ; by Mr. Fletcher on " A Visit to Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards " ; by Mr. Geddes on " Entomology in Germany " ; by 

 Mr. Moffat on " Microscopical Observation of an Unexpanded Wing of 

 Callosamia promethea ". Many specimens were exhibited in illustration 

 of tlie various subjects brought before the meeting, and interesting dis- 

 cussions took place upon them. Full reports, with the papers in detail, 

 will be given in the forthcoming Annual Report. The meeting was highly 

 successful and enjoyable, and was very well attended. 



