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The President, in referring to the work of the special committee 

 appointed by the House of Commons in February last to inquire into the 

 condition of agriculture, said that the members would be much pleased 

 to learn that as one of the results of that inquiry, Mr. Fletcher had been 

 appointed Honorary Entomologist to the Dominion Department of Agricul- 

 ture. It was much to be desired that this appointment should become 

 permanent, for the Society cordially recognized the special fitness of 

 Mr. Fletcher for this important position, and believed that he would 

 accomplisli much good work in this connection. 



Mr. Reed exhibited a colored photograph presented to the Society by 

 Mr. Alfred Wailly, an English member of the Society, representing an 

 extraordinary aberrant form of Attacus cecropia. 



Mr. Fletcher stated that he was happy to announce that during the 

 past summer, under instructions from Dr. Selwyn, F. R. S., Director of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, an interesting collection of Lepidoptera had 

 been made in the Lake Nepigon region by Prof Macoun and Mr. William 

 Macoun, and that these having been submitted to him for identification, 

 he had found many very valuable insects, included among which he made 

 special mention of two species of Chionobas, Colias eury theme, Colias 

 interior, a species of Chrysophanus, which was possibly new, and Alypia 

 MacCullochii. By means of these instructions to the surveyors it was 

 hoped that much useful information would be obtained of the insect 

 fauna of these newer parts of the Dominion that were being explored and 

 opened up for occupation. 



Mr. Fletcher remarked that we have heard. a good deal of rubbish in 

 the newspapers, etc., about nothing being done by the members of the 

 Geological Survey. He hoped that it was unnecessary to say that these 

 reports were entirely without foundation, and, at any rate, the present 

 action of the Director would prove to all entomologists that he appreciated 

 the value of their scientific researches. 



The evening being somewhat advanced the Society adjourned until 9 

 o'clock next morning. 



Thursday Morning, October 16. 



The Society re-assembled at their rooms at 9.30. The President in 

 the chair. 



Mr. W. H. Harrington stated that Phytonomiis nigricornis occurred 

 in considerable numbers in the vicinity of Ottawa, but that he had not 



