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Section 3. All officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual 

 meeting, for a term of one year, and shall be eligible for re-election. 



Article VI. 



MEETINGS. 



Section i. An annual meeting shall be held at such time and place 

 as the Executive Committee each year may select. 



Article VII. 

 amendments. 

 Section i. This constitution may be altered or amended at any 

 annual meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present, a copy of 

 each amendment proposed having been sent to members and fellows at. 

 least one month m advance of the meeting. 



BY-LAWS. 



1. The annual dues for members and fellows shall be one dollar. 



2. A majority of the members present at an annual meeting shall 

 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 



3. Notice of all meetings of the society shall be sent to members at 

 least one month in advance. 



4. The Executive Committee shall provide a programme for all 

 meetings, including at the annual meeting, a popular lecture, and a 

 technical entomological exhibit of material and methods. 



5. The time of the business meeting shall be published prior to the 

 opening session of the annual meeting. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The first regular meeting of the autumn and winter season was held 

 in the Biological lecture room of the Ontario Agricultural College on 

 Wednesday evening, October 17th. Mr. T. D. Jarvis, Vice-President, 

 occupied the chair. The proceedings began with notes and observations 

 made by members during the past summer. 



Prof. Bethune exhibited mounted specimens, showing the life-history 

 and work of the cwo Asparagus beetles, Crioceris asparagi and i2-ptmc- 

 tatus, the former of which feeds on the foliage, and the latter on the seeds 

 of the plant. He described the steady advance of these insects in a 

 westerly direction. C. asparagi, the blue species, he had never seen alive 

 till this year, though it is now very abundant in the College garden ; the 

 spotted species has been familiar about London for three or four years, 

 and seems to be a few years in advance of its companion in its spread 



