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Besides the report of our own Society, which contained much useful 

 and practical information, there has been issued in Canada since I last 

 addressed you a preliminary report by the Dominion Entomologist, Mr. 

 Jas. Fletcher, containing some useful records of work done during the year 

 and plans for more extended usefulness in the future. It is cause for sin- 

 cere regret that our esteemed fellow-laborer has in consequence of a 

 severe affliction been obliged to postpone the completion of some of his 

 cherished plans, and thus the completion of work begun with much vigor 

 and promise has been unavoidably delayed. We sincerely hope that he 

 may soon be entirely restored, and thus be enabled to carry on with in- 

 creased efficiency the work he has undertaken. In addition to the excel- 

 lent annual report of Miss Ormerod, which has already been noticed, 

 there has been issued in England a useful pamphlet on " Insects Injurious 

 to Hop Plants," prepared for the Agricultural Department of Great 

 Britain by Chas. Whitehead. This issue is to be followed by others on 

 grain, root and fruit crops, and it is sincerely hoped that the issue of these 

 publications will awaken in the minds of the agriculturists of Great Britain 

 a livelier interest in the importance of the study of economic entomology. 

 In the United States much has been done. The Entomological Bureau 

 in Washington, under the able direction of Prof Riley, has most effici- 

 ently continued its good work by investigating insect pests in all parts of 

 the United States, and in endeavoring to devise useful measures for their 

 destruction. The reports issued during the past year have been most 

 valuable, and are profusely illustrated. The annual report of Prof. 

 Forbes, State Entomologist of Illinois, is also especially worthy of notice. 

 Very excellent papers on economic entomology have also been published 

 by Prof J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, Prof A. J. Cook, 

 of Lansing, Michigan, Prof. Herbert Osborn, of Ames, Iowa, and others. 



Mr. AVm. H. Edwards, of Coalburgh, W. Va., has published a revised 

 catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera North of Mexico, and has continued 

 the publication in parts of his magnificent work on the Butterilies of North 

 America. He has also continued his observations on the life histories of 

 American butterffies, the results of which have been published in the 

 monthly organ of our Society, the Canadian Entomologist. A new list 

 of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico, by Samuel Henshaw, has 

 also appeared. 



Some indication is given of the progress being made in the study of 

 Entomology in any community, by the extent of information recorded in 



