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Vol. XXXVI. 



LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1904. 



No. II 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The forty-first annual meeting of the Society was held in its new 

 quarters in the Public Library Building, Queen's Avenue, London, on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 26th and 27th. The chair was taken by 

 the President, Prof. \V. Lochhead, of the Ontario Agricultural College at 

 Gilelph. Among those present were : Dr. James Fletcher and Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa; Mr. H. H. Lyman, 

 Montreal ; Mr. John D. Evans, Trenton ; Mr. J. B. Williams, Toronto ; 

 Mr. G. E. Fisher, Burlington ; Prof. Creelman, President of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College ; Miss M. V. Dunlop, Woodstock ; Mr. J. A. Balk- 

 will, Dr. Bethune, Prof. Bowman, Prof. Dearness, Mr. S. B. McCready, 

 Principal Merchant, Mr. John Law, Mr. Jacobs (of the "Farmer's 

 Advocate"), Mr. W. E. Saunders, Mr. W. R. Thofnpson, Dr. Woolverton, 

 Mr. M. Westland, Miss Bapty, Miss Hotson, and others, London j Prof. 

 Wickham, of the University of Iowa, Iowa City ; Mr. T. N. Willing, Chief 

 Inspector of Weeds for the Department of Agriculture, Regina, N.-W. T. 

 The first morning session was occupied by a business meeting of the 

 Council. 



In the afternoon the President began the proceedings by congratulat- 

 ing the Society on their fine new quarters in the Public Library Building, 

 which afford ample space for the books and collections, and which are in 

 every way more commodious and accessible. He "paid a feeling tribute 

 to the memory of the late J. Alston Moffat, who died in February last, 

 and who had been the faithful Curator and Librarian for fourteen years. 



The reports of the Directors on the injurious insects of the year were 



then read ; they all remarked upon the scarcity of insect life during the 



season and the consequent immunity throughout the Province from serious 

 insect depredations. Mr. Fisher gave an account of some experiments 



