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Vol. XXXVII. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1905. No. 11 



^ ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 

 The forty-second annual meeting of the Society was held, by kind 

 invitation, of President Creelman, at the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Guelph, on Wednesday and Thursday, October iSth and 19th. Owing to 

 the unavoidable absence of Mr. John D. Evans, President of the Society, 

 the chair was taken by the Vice-President, Dr. James Fletcher, 



Dominion Entomologist and Botanist, Ottawa. Among those present 

 were : Rev. Dr. Fyles, Quebec ; Mr. H. H. Lyman, Montreal ; Mr. C. 

 H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge ; Mr. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa ; Mr. C. C. 

 James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, Messrs! J. B. Williams 

 and C. W. Nash, Toronto ; Mr. G. E. Fisher, Burlington ; Rev. Dr. 

 Bethune, London ; President Creelman, Professors Lochhead, McCready, 

 Sherman, Hutt, Reed, Messrs. Clew, Zavitz, Barlow, Jarvis, Hotson and 

 others, Guelph. There were also present a large number of the young 

 women students from the Macdonald Institute and of young men from the 

 Agricultural College. At some of the meetings the attendance was over 

 one hundred. The Society was also favoured with the presence of Prof. 

 John B, Smith, State Entomologist of New Jersey, and a Professor in 

 Rutger's College, one of our honorary members. 



During the first morning a business meeting of the Council was held, 

 at which the Treasurer's report was received and adopted. Application 

 was made by a number of gentlemen belonging to the Agricultural College 

 and the Wellington Field Naturalists' Club for the formation of a Guelph 

 Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario. The request was very 

 heartily acceded to, and the Branch was inaugurated with an initial list 

 of twenty-four members. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, 

 Colo., an eminent entomologist, especially distinguished by his work in 

 the Coccidse and Hymenoptera, was unanimously elected an honorary 

 member. 



In the afternoon the reports of the Directors on the injurious insects 

 of the year were read, and interesting discussions followed upon the 



