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Vol. XXXVIII. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1906. 



No. II 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



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

 quarters at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, October loth and iith. The chair was taken by the Vice- 

 President, Dr. James Fletcher, Entomologist and Botanist of the Dominion 

 Experimental Farms. Among those present were Mr. John D, Evans, 

 Trenton, the retiring President ; Mr. Henry H. Lyman, Montreal ; Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa: Mr. C. H. Young, 

 Hurdman's Bridge ; Dr. Brodie, and Messrs. C. W. Nash, J. B. Williams 

 and Paul Hahn, Toronto ; Mr. G. E. Fisher, Burlington ; Mr. J. Fred. 

 Smith, San Jose Scale Inspector for Ontario ; President Creelman, 

 Professors Hutt, McCready and Bethune, Messrs. Jarvis, Eastham, 

 Howitt, Zavitz and Peart, of the Ontario Agricultural College, and a large 

 number of students from both the College and the Macdonald Institute. 

 Owing to the lateness of the train from the east, there was only time for a 

 very brief business meeting of the Council. 



In the afternoon the proceedings began with a discussion on the 

 Codling-worm, and, owing to the large attendance, over a hundred being 

 present, the meeting was held in the spacious Massey Hall. Dr. Fletcher, 

 the chairman, opened the debate by giving an outline of the life-history 

 of the insect, the extent of its ravages and the ordinary methods of dealing 

 with it. Dr. Brodie read a paper, in which he recounted the early history 

 of the insect in Ontario, and described his efforts to rear its pa:rasites and 

 the difficulties he had to encounter in studying them and their host. The 

 discussion was participated in by Prof Hutt, Messrs. Nash, Fisher, Jarvis, 

 Peart, Zavitz, Crow, Caesar, and Prof Bethune. The remainder of the 

 afternoon was occupied with the reading of the reports of the Directors on 

 the Insects of the Year in their respective districts. 



In the evening, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, 



Massey Hall was nearly filled with an appreciative audience. The 



chairman, in opening the proceedings, spoke of the new home the Society 



had acquired, and congratulated the members on the excellent arrange- 

 ments that have been made for its library and collections by the authori- 

 ties of the Ontario Agricultural College. President Creelman gave a 



