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and published in the Commissioner's report. In these pubhcations the 

 insects injurious to the various field crops and fruits have from time to 

 time been discussed, together with the remedies which have been stiggested 

 for their destruction. The value of these reports is indicated by the de- 

 mand which has arisen for them, owing to which it has been found neces- 

 sary to greatly increase the number of copies issued ; some of those belong- 

 ing to the earlier years are now quite scarce and difficult to obtain. They 

 have been most favorably noticed by the press in all parts of America and 

 Great Britain, and thus the good work has been brought prominently 

 into notice. If we contrast the amount of information now available to 

 our farmers and fruit growers on the nature and life history of destructive 

 insects, and the best methods of subduing them, with our knowledge on 

 this subject fifteen years ago, the vast progress made will at once be recog- 

 nized, and it is to the unselfish labors of the members of our Society that 

 much of the credit for this is legitimately due. I have no hesitation in 

 asserting that the value of the information thus distributed has returned to 

 the countr)' by the losses which have been lessened or prevented many 

 times the amount whic;h has been granted to the Society during the past 

 twelve years from the public moneys of this Province. 



The Canadian ENTOMOLotiiST has been regularly issued, and is now 

 in its fifteenth volume. The volumes published have contained a vast 

 amount of useful scientific information, which, by its wide dissemination, 

 has been one of the chief factors in the progress of entomology in this 

 country. The work of our Society in this department has attracted much 

 attention abroad, and our journal has been sought after by many of the 

 learned Societies in Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, 

 Russia and Sweden, and regular exchanges of our publications with theirs 

 on equal terms effected. Thus from small beginnings the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario has come to be recognized as one of the important aids 

 to scientific progress. It is much to the credit of Ontario that for some 

 years the Canadian Entomologist was the only regularly issued periodi- 

 cal specially devoted to the interests of Entomology on the American con- 

 tinent, and that it still commands the contributions of many of the most 

 distinguished entomologists in all parts of the country. 



During the period of the existence of the Society a large collection of 

 insects has been made, a good library accumulated, and an excellent 

 working microscope and other facilities for the study of insects provided, 

 all of which are readily accessible here to any of our members who may 



