THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. I57 



and has been carefully edited. We are glad to learn from the report of 

 the Council that the annual membership has steadily continued to increase 

 from the inception of the Society in 1878, and now is 128. Several 

 valuable papers in different branches of natural history which were read 

 during the winter of 1883-4, have been printed, ; among which we find a 

 capital and very appropriate Inaugural Address from the President Dr 

 H. Beaumont Small, in uiiich the history of the Club is briefly sketched 

 and present events of immediate interest to the Club referred to after 

 which the different systems of classification in the animal kingdom are 

 treated of There are tables given of the diff-erent systems of Linnaeus 

 Dawson, Cuvier and Haeckel. The President states that the system' 

 taught by Principal Dawson (of McGill College) is included as he is our 

 leading Canadian authority, and his system is a fair example of many in 

 vogue at the present day. This is followed by " Notes on the Flora 

 Ottawaensis," which specially refers to introduced plants. Prof Macoun 

 contributes a paper upon " Edible and Poisonous Fungi." This is fol 

 lowed by perhaps the most valuable paper of all, "A List of Ottawa 

 Coleoptera," by our esteemed correspondent, Mr. W. Hague Harrington 

 This list shows not only great care on the part of the author in preparing 

 It but remarkable diligence and assiduity in making the collection of 

 which it IS a record, all of which are available for reference. The list 

 contains no less than 1,003 species, no of which are new to Canada • all 

 •of these were collected within a radius of 12 miles from the City of 

 \ Ottawa, chiefly by Mr. Harrington himself. This list is remarkably free 

 from errors, and unusual care has evidently been taken to have the nomen- 

 •clature correct and all synonyms eliminated. Altogether this list forms 

 ^-an important addition to our entomological literature. Following this is 

 ^.a paper by Mr. J. B. Tyrrell upon Suctoria. This gentleman has by 

 -taking up the systematic study of these insects and the Acarid^, already 

 done important work in Canadian entomology. It is upon these tribes 

 particularly that the student has difficulty in finding information. A paper 

 hipon Canadian Phosphates by Dr. G. M. Dawson will be read with interest 

 by man>^ There are also papers on the Fossils from the vicinity of 

 Ottawa, by Mr. Henri Ami ; on the Sand Plains of the Ottawa, by Mr 

 jl!>. Odburn ; and the Deer of the Ottawa Valley, by Mr W P Lett 

 [These papers are followed by the reports from the leaders in the several* 

 Ibranches of Geology, Botany, Conchology, Entomology, Ornithology and 

 ^oology. The plan adopted in this Club of having the work divided up 



