THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 183 



In August, 1868. the first number of the Canadian Entomologist 

 appeared under the editorship of our esteemed coadjutor, Rev. C. J. S. 

 Bethune. of Port Hope. It was a humble looking sheet of eight pages 

 only, and this was not promised to be issued at any regular intervals, but 

 from time to time, as material accumulated which was thought to be 

 worthy of publication. To meet the expenses of publication, voluntary 

 contributions were made by many of the members, and it was thus sus- 

 tained and issued monthly for fifteen months, during which time it was 

 found to be so useful that it met with encouragement everywhere ; it had 

 also acquired a reputation abroad, and many Entomologists in Great 

 Britain and the United States had become regular subscribers. Early in 

 1870, the Council of the Agricultural and Arts Association of Ontario, 

 recognizing the important bearing of Entomology on Agriculture, liberally 

 appropriated the sum of four hundred dollars in aid of the Entomological 

 Society for the year ensuing, on the following conditions : That the 

 Society continued to publish the Canadian Entomologist, that it furnish 

 a report to the Council on insects injurious or beneficial to Agriculture, 

 and that a small cabinet of insects illustrating the various orders be made 

 and placed at the disposal of the Council. These conditions were gladly 

 complied with and faithfully carried out, and the report, consisting of 64 

 pages illustrated with 61 cuts, was printed in the report of the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture for that year. During the latter part of 1870 an 

 amendment to the Agricultural and Arts Act was introduced by the Hon 

 John Carling, then Commissioner of Agriculture for Ontario, which pro- 

 vided for the incorporation of the Society under the name of " The Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario," with a yearly-grant of five hundred dollars 

 from the public fimds of the Province, on condition that the Society pre- 

 pare annually for the Commissioner of Agriculture a report on the subject 

 of insects injurious or beneficial to the farm and garden, with the under- 

 standing also that the Canadian Entomologist should be continued. 

 During the period which has since elapsed, the Ontario Government have 

 recognized the value of the service rendered by the Society to the agricul- 

 tural interests of Ontario by increasing the grant several times, until it now 

 amounts to one thousand dollars a year. The liberality of the Govern- 

 ment has greatly stimulated the work of the Society. 



The practical or economic aspect of this work has been presented to 

 the public mainly in the series of thirteen annual reports, which have been 

 sul^mitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture by members of the Society, 



