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EXPENDITURE. 



To Printing $1 14 87 



" Postage and Express 9 48 



'• Studley &, Co., American Entomologist 36 01 



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Members of the Society are respectfully notified that their subscriptions 

 ($2) are now due for the year 1871. From the above Statement it will be 

 observed that many members are also in arrear for the year 1870. 



All communications and remittances should be addressed to the Rev. C. J. 

 S. Bethune, Trinity College School, Port Hope. 



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INCORPORATION OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Our readers will no doubt be pleased to learn that a bill is now before the 

 Legislature of Ontario, for the incorporation of the Entomological Society, 

 under the Agricultural and Arts Act. The effect will be to place it upon the 

 same footing as the Fruit-Growers' Association of Ontario, with an annual 

 grant of $500 per annum. 



A general meeting of the Society will be called as soon as the bill has 

 passed the Legislature. "We shall refer to the matter at greater length in our 



next issue. 



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SIXTH ANNUAL REPOET OF THE 



LONDON BRANCH OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA, 



For the Year Ending December 3 1st, ]8/"0. 



At the cbse of another year it becomes the pleasing duty of your Com- 

 mittee to present this the Sixth Annual Report. 



The past season has been a favourable one for the Society. Our financial 

 Report exhibits a good balance in hand after payment of all current expenses. 

 Owing to the geuerous support the Society continues to receive, our roll of 

 members still contains thirty-three names. Again we would thank our 

 friends for their continued assistance to this the only Scientific Society at 

 present existing in the " Forest City." With' the liberal donation of the 

 Parent Society we have been enabled to purchase a magnificent cabinet. To 

 prepare it for the reception of insects will be a work of some little time, but 

 we trust in due course to see its drawers gradually filled with choice specimens 

 from all quarters. London has fairly earned a provincial reputation for its 

 Entomological collections. At the Western Fair held in September, four 

 prizes were obtained by our members, and the proceeds as usual transferred 

 to our Treasury. Efforts have been recently made to induce the Society to 



