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Society's Apparatus, and we trust that during the present year this debt will be 

 greatly reduced. — The Society numbers 30, and we hope to procure some fresh 

 additions to our ranks. — We feel that the Society is greatly indebted to those 

 of our members, who, not being practical entomologists themselves, yet aid and 

 encourage us by their subscriptions in prosecuting our useful work. The last 

 Provincial Exhibition bore good testimony to the industry and perseverance of 

 London Collectors. The display of Insects there, was probably the finest ever 

 yet exhibited in the Dominion. We feel proud in recording that Four Prizes 

 were obtained, amounting to $26 50. This sum, in accordance with our usual 

 custom, was added to the funds of the Branch. We must not omit to notice that 

 Entomology has been started at the Hellmuth College, and the Head Master, the 

 Rev. A. Sweatman, is desirous of giving the science every encouragement. 



It is with pleasure that we now record the success of the Parent Society in ob- 

 taining aid from government. Upon a strong application to the Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation of Ontario, the Board has made a grant of $400 for the present year, con- 

 ditional on a Report being made and collections procured, and the publication of 

 the Canadian Entomologist being continued. This is, indeed, a great success, 

 and we trust that through this wise liberality the Society may be enabled to dif- 

 fuse, far and wide, a more practical knowledge of Entomology. The Canadian 

 Entomologist has entered on its second year, aud bids iair to obtain a good share 

 of success. We notice that its pages are now doubled. We earnestly request our 

 members to contribute to its pages any interesting facts in Entomology that may 

 come under their notice. 



We also beg to inform the members that the Parent Society in acknowledgment 

 of the industry and importanoe of the London Branch, has donated $75 for the 

 purchase of a Cabinet for the Branch ; any contributions of Insects will therefore 

 be most welcome. 



In conclusion, we trust that the members will use their best endeavors to pro- 

 mote the interests of the Society, remembering that our aim is not a selfish one, 

 but that the practical results of our labor affect the interests of a very large por- 

 tion of our community. 



Edmund Baynks Reed. Geokge M. Innes. 



Sec. and Treasurer. President London Branch. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Nature. — A weekly illustrated Journal of Science. Macmillan & Co., London. 

 Nos. 9-15. The objects of this excellent new publication are, as stated in its 

 prospectus, " to place before the general public the grand results of scientific 

 work and scientific discovery, and to urge the claims of science to a more general 

 recognition in education and in daily life ; and to aid scientific men themselves, 

 by giving early information of all advances made in any branch of natural know- 

 ledge throughout the world, and by affording them an opportunity of discussing 

 the various scientific questions which arise from time to time." The numbers 

 before us bear ample witness to the satisfactory mode in which these objects are 

 being carried out; they contain a large number of practically scientific articles by 



