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Vol. XXXVIII. LONDON, JULY, 1906. No. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 

 Removal to Guelph. 



On the 4th of May the President of the Society, Mr. J. D. Evans, 

 C. E , Trenton, sent a circular letter to all the members of the Council of 

 the Society, asking for their opinion respecting the proposed removal of 

 the headquarters of the Society from London to Guelph. In a letter, 

 dated lune iSth, he announces that he has received replies from all the 

 members, and that the vote stands in favour of the removal eleven, 

 opposed to it four ; one member abstained from voting. He adds : 

 '•Since the vote in favour of the move stands nearly three to one, I hereby 

 declare the decision for the removal to Guelph carried." 



The Society's lease of its present quarters in the Public Library 

 Building, London, terminates its second year on the ist of September 

 next, and at that time another tenant is prepared to take over the premises 

 and relieve the Society of the remainder of its term ; to this arrangement 

 the Library Board has given its consent. The removal will therefore be 

 carried out during the latter part of x\ugust. 



Tl>e Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph will provide, rent free, 

 suitable accommodation for the Society's library and collections, etc. To 

 the former there will be assigned a special section in the fireproof Massey 

 Hall Building, and the collections will be kept entirely distinct from those 

 belonging to the College. All the property of the Society will be entirely 

 under the control of its own officers, and subject to any regulations that 

 its Council may draw up. A written agreement to this effect between the 

 College and the Society will be duly executed. 



Much regret is felt by all the members of the Council, and no doubt 

 by the members of the Society in general, that the headquarters should be 

 removed from London, where they were established a few years after the 

 formation of the Society in 1863. Unfortunately, interest in entomology 

 has almost entirely died out in London, and there seems to be no one 

 there available for the supervision and care of the library and collections. 

 The sections also in Botany, Ornithology, Geology and the Microscope 

 tave, one after the other, ceased their active operations, and no meetings 



