182 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS 



OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, 1 873. 



To the Members of the Entomological Society of Ontario : 



Gentlemen, — Ten years have now gone by since a few of us met at 

 the house of Professor Croft, in Toronto, and organized this Society. We 

 commenced with less than five and twenty members, and now our Secretary 

 informs us that we have over three hundred names upon our roll. A 

 twelve-fold increase in a decade of years is certainly an evidence of 

 progress upon which we may well congratulate ourselves, and which ought 

 assuredly to stimulate all our members to use their utmost exertions for 

 the maintenance and improvement of the Society. Those of us who from 

 year to year have been entrusted by you with positions of office and duty 

 in the Society, cannot but feel that it is for the best interests of our 

 institution that more of its members should be led to take an active part 

 in its work, and thus secure more efficiency in all our departments, and 

 more certainty of a permanent developement of all our operations. 

 Hitherto the work has fallen upon a few of us, and we have endeavoured 

 to perform it as efficiently and heartily as we can ; but we find that year 

 after year our own professional and other duties make increased demands 

 upon our time and attention, so that with all the desire in the world to 

 devote ourselves to our favourite branch of Natural Science and the 

 operations of the Entomological Society, we are unable to do so to the 

 same extent as in earlier years. On this account — not from any diminution 

 of zeal and interest on our own part — we are most anxious that more of 

 you should take your share in the work and aid us in maintaining unim- 

 paired the good reputation that the Society has already achieved. Each 

 one, we are sure, can do something, and the united efforts of us all must 

 assuredly be productive of satisfactory and permanent results. 



Our sister Society — the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario — we 

 rejoice to see is rapidly growing in public appreciation and favour ; its 

 members' list of over 3000 names, its well-attended meetings in various 

 parts of the country, its judicious di .tributions of fruit for experimental 



