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fication. The chief credit for the successful accomplishment of 

 this great task is due to the energy and enthusiasm of Dr. William 

 Saunders and Mr: E. Baynes Reed, two of the original members 

 of the Society. 



In 1882 a portion of the collection, consisting of forty cases, 

 was sent to the International Fisheries Exhibition in London, 

 England, by request of the Dominion Minister of Marine and 

 Fisheries. It was also sent to the Dominion Exhibition in Ottawa. 



In 1886, in compliance with the request of the Dominion 

 Government, and with the cordial approval of the Provincial 

 Government, the whole of the Society's collection of Canadian 

 insects was sent to England to form part of the Indian and Colonial 

 Exhibition. The collection contained over ten thousand speci- 

 mens, representing the various orders. Two of the cases were 

 broken in transit, and a number of specimens of Lepidoptera were 

 damaged. After the return of the collection to London, Ontario, 

 it was decided that it should not again be sent away for exhibition 

 purposes, in order that any danger of injury or loss might be avoid- 

 ed. From these exhibitions the Society received a number of 

 medals, gold, silver and bronze, and several diplomas. 



In 1890 the Society purchased the collections of Mr. Johnston 

 Pettit, of Grimsby. These consisted of a cabinet of twenty small 

 drawers, containing a fairly representative collection of North 

 American Coleoptera determined for the most part by Dr. Horn 

 and other Specialists, and, therefore, valuable for reference; there 

 was also a variety of specimens of exotic Lepidoptera and other 

 orders. 



The most interesting and probably the most valuable of the 

 Society's possessions from a scientific point of view is the D' Urban 

 collection of Lepidoptera. It consists of a single drawer (No. 

 16 in the large, walnut cabinet), containing 183 specimens of 

 moths, mostly Noctuids and Geometers. In one corner is pinned 

 the following note by Mr. E. Baynes Reed, dated London, No\-em- 

 ber, 1871: "This collection of Canadian Moths was made by Mr. 

 William D'Urban, formerly a resident of Montreal, but now of 

 Exeter, Devon, England. They w'ere taken to England by him 

 and sent to Mr. Francis Walker at the British Museum for identi- 

 fication. Many of the specimens are the identical types of Mr. 



