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were well attended by members and students. The reports of the Council, 

 Officers and Branches of the Society were presented and read. The 

 President, Mr. T. 1). Jarvis, read the annual address, in which he especially 

 referred to recent publications and other work accomplished during the 

 past year. A paper by the Rev. Dr. Fyles, of Hull, on "Adaptations in 

 Insect Structure," was read ; and a paper on the "Parasitic Work on the 

 Gypsy and Brown tail Moths in Massachusetts," by Mr. J. D. Tothill, a 

 fourth-year student at the College, who spent last summer in the work at 

 the Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. In the afternoon the following 

 papers were read : '"The Spruce Bud-moth," by Mr. A. Gibson ; 

 "Nursery Work in Ontario,'' by Mr. R. C.Treherne; "The Larch Saw-fly," 

 by Dr. Hewitt ; "A New Heliothid from St. Hilaire, P. Q," by Mr. 

 Winn, who also exhibited an excellent implement for digging out larvae 

 and pupae, which consisted of a trenching tool served out to the U. S. 

 soldiers at the time of the Spanish-American war. Dr. Bethune gave an 

 account of some of the insects of the year in Ontario. These papers were 

 discussed by a number of those present. They will be published in full in 

 the forthcoming annual report. 



The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : 

 President— Tennyson D. Jarvis, B.S.A., Lecturer in Entomology and 

 Zoology, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. 



Vice-President — Edmund M. Walker, B.A., M.D., Lecturer in 

 Biology, University of Toronto. 



Secretary-Treasurer — J. Eaton Howitt, U.S.A., Demonstrator in 

 Botany, O. A. College, Guelph. 



Curator — Lawson Caesar, B.A., B.S.A., Demonstrator in Ento- 

 mology and Plant Diseases, O. A. College. Guelph. 



Librarian— Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.C, Professor 

 of Entomology and Zoology, O. A. College, Guelph. 



Directors: Division No. i. — Arthur Gibson, Department of Ento- 

 mology, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Division No. 2. — C. E. 

 Grant, Orillia. Division No. 3. — J. B. Williams, Toronto. Division 

 No. 4.— C W. Nash, Toronto. Division No. 5. F. J. A. Morris, Port 

 Hope. Division No. 6. — R. S. Hamilton, Collegiate Institute, Gait. 

 Division No. 7. — R. C. Treherne, Grimsby. 



Delegate to the Royal Society— die v. Dr. Fyles, Hull, P. Q. 



Auditors— Prof. S. B. McCready and J. W. Crow, B.S.A., O. A. 

 College, Guelph. 



