Cjje (Kanatiian (Entomologist. 



Yol. II. TORONTO, JANUARY 1, 1870. No. 4. 



THF ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



To-day our Society enters with the New Year upon a new phase of exist- 

 ence. Hitherto it has been entirely dependant upon the unaided contributions 

 and voluntary assistance of its members, who, in the very nature of things, are 

 comparatively few in number, and scattered over a wide area of country; now 

 it has received official recognition, and is furnished with such pecuniary aid 

 as will enable it to carry out more effectually the work that it was intended 

 to perform. We trust, then, that all our members will now bestir themselves, 

 and work zealously and actively for the cause of Entomology in this country, 

 and will show by their labours that the encouragement afforded them has been 

 usefully and worthily bestowed. We have now made our first moult, but still 

 continue in a larval state, with all a caterpillar's voracity for food; unless we 

 get plenty we shall shrivel up and die. The sustenance that we require is 

 more members, more work, more books, more specimens, more scientific con- 

 tributions, more subscribers to our journal, more active co-operation on the 

 part of all! 



The following resolution unanimously adopted at the last meeting of the 

 Council of the Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario, describes our new 

 position : — 



" Resolved. — That the sum of four hundred dollars be appropriated in aid of 

 the Entomological Society for the ensuing ) 7 ear, on the condition that the Society 

 furnish an Annual Report, and form a Cabinet of Insects, useful or prejudicial to 

 Agriculture and Horticulture, to be placed at the disposal of this Council, and that 

 they also continue to publish their Journal." 



This assistance is very timely and acceptable, but it will be observed that it 

 imposes upon us fresh work which will require the active assistance of our 

 members to perform satisfactorily. The Annual Report is intended to be of a 

 practical character and to resemble those issued by the State Entomologists in 

 the United States; notes and observations in economic Entomology from all 

 parts of the country will be especially needed for this. The cabinet of noxious 

 and beneficial insects will also stand in need of contributions from all our mem- 



