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this way, by a special process, blocks were prepared for the printer at a 

 very trifling expense. The project was heartly approved of, and it was 

 agreed on all sides that much valuable instruction might be disseminated 

 in this way. 



Mr. Burman related his experience of injury to cattle and dogs by 

 flies in the Northwest, and asked whether fish-oil would be a remedy. 

 In reply, Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Howard .stated that fish and other oils and 

 grease were effective, both in keeping off the flies and in healing the 

 affected parts. 



The meeting then adjourned till the afternoon. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The report of the council, the audited financial statement of the 

 Secretary-Treasurer, and the report of the Librarian were presented and 

 read to the meeting, and, on motion, were duly discussed and adopted. 

 Mr. Moffat spoke of the large amount of work and the great care which 

 Mr. Reed had bestowed upon the library during many years past, and 

 of the excellent position into which it was npw brought. He moved that 

 " The thanks of the Society be given to Mr. Reed for his services in the 

 library, and that the Executive Committee be hereby recommended to 

 consider the possibility of shewing, in some pecuniary way, their recogni- 

 tion of his labors." Mr. Geddes, in seconding the resolution, which was 

 duly carried, referred in warm terms to Mr. Reed's efficiency and kindness 

 in connection with the library. It was suggested, in the discussion that 

 followed, that a catalogue of the books should be prepared, and that by- 

 laws should be framed for the proper regulation of the library and the 

 issue of books to members of the Society. Mr. Denton said that there 

 were now about eleven hundred volumes in the library, many of them 

 being very rare works on entomology and other departments of science ; 

 he thought it most desirable that members out of London should be 

 enabled to know what books there were, and under what conditions they 

 might borrow them. Dr. Brodie spoke of the great importance of having 

 a complete catalogue made of all the libraries in Ontario, and said that 

 he considered it a work that might very well be undertaken by the Pro- 

 vincial Government. Mr. Reed thought that we were still in too crude 

 a state to publish a catalogue of the Society's Library, but we might 



