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Vol. XXXV. LONDON, OCTOBER, 1903. No. 10 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The fortieth annual meetuig of the Society was held at Ottawa on 

 the 3rd and 4th of September. On the former day a meeting of the 

 Council for the transaction of business was held in the morning ; in the 

 afternoon reports were read from the various Branches, Sections and 

 Officers of the Society, as well as several papers of an interesting character. 

 In the evening a public meeting was held in the Assembly Hall of the 

 Normal School, at whicli the President, Professor Lochhead, read his 

 annual address. He was followed by Dr. L. O. Howard, of Washington, 

 United States Entomologist, who gave a very clear and most interesting 

 account of the transmission of yellow fever by mosquitoes. The second 

 day was occupied with the reading and discussion of papers, the election 

 of officers and the examination of a number of specimens brought by the 

 members. A full account of the proceedings will be given in the Annual 

 Report of the Society to the Legislature of Ontario. 



The following were elected officers for the ensuing year : 



Preside7it — Professor William Lochhead, B. A., M. S., Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph. 



Vice-President — T. D. Evans, C. E., Trenton. 



Secretary — VV. E. Saunde.rs, London. 



Treasurer — J. A. Balkwill, London. 



Directors: Division No. i — C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge. 

 Division No. 2 — C. E. Grant, Orillia. 

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

 Division No. 4 — G. E. Fisher, Freeman. 

 Division No. 5 — R. W. Rennie, London. 



Directors Ex-officio (ex-Presidents of the Society) — Professor William 

 Saunders, LL.D., F.L.S., F.R.S.C, Director of the Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.C, London; James 

 Fletcher, LL.D., F.L.S., F.R.S.C, Entomologist and Botanist of the 



