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the most noticeable injuries caused by insects last season to the various 

 crops. 



In the United States great attention is still paid to the study of Econo- 

 mic Entomology. Several of the States, as well as the Federal Govern- 

 ment,make liberal provisions for the investigations of appointed Entomolo- 

 gists. 



The published Reports of such investigations are exceedingly valuable ; 

 and furnish, with the exception of that supplied by the Entomological So- 

 ciety of Ontario, almost the only reliable information regarding the injuri- 

 ous insects infesting our orchards, fields and gardens. 



It is a matter of no little importance that as full information as can be 

 obtained should be, as widely as possible, circulated among our farmers, 

 and to this end the appointment of an Entomologist by the Department of 

 Agriculture is an important step in the right direction. 



The President then delivered his annual address. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF ONTARIO. 



Gentlemen, — The season of 1885 has not been distinguished by any 

 unusual invasion by injurious insect hosts. Nothing assuming the pro- 

 portion of a general or serious calamity in this direction has occurred in 

 any department of agriculture or horticulture; nevertheless instances have 

 not been wanting where local injuries caused by insects have assumed 

 considerable proportions, the sum total of which, if the results were ex- 

 pressed in money loss, would represent a very large sum. 



The great staple productions of our country, such as wheat, oats, 

 barley and hay, have not, so far as we have been able to learn, suffered 

 material injury from insects in any locality in our Province, but while the 

 farmers of Ontario have thus been exempt, our neighbors across the 

 lines have not enjoyed the same immunity. In the neighbouring State of 

 New York the loss occasioned by the Hessian Fly has been estimated at 

 over $100,000. In the great wheat fields on the Pacific slope, and also in 

 those of Dacotah and other Western States, there have been much severer 

 losses from the same cause. Early in August I received from a corres- 

 pondent in Dallas. Oregon, samples of wheat seriously injured by another 

 destructive insect which as yet, happily, has not to our knowledge oc- 

 curred in Canada. This is a small yellowish worm from one-sixth to one- 

 fifth of an inch in length, which is found within the stalk of wheat about 



