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purposes, and the vigour and zeal of its executive, are all matters upon 

 which we may well congratulate its President, Directors and Members. 

 That it may go on and prosper, and extend its work throughout our land, 

 till every resident of the Dominion enjoys the fruit of his own vine and 

 his own fruit-tree, is our most hearty aspiration. 



During the past year but little has occurred in an Entomological point 

 of view that calls for especial notice on this occasion. A year ago I 

 ventured to call your attention to the subject of Specific and Generic 

 Nomenclature, which has been so unpleasantly exciting the minds of 

 Entomologists both here and almost everywhere else. My remarks, I was 

 gratified to find, elicited a good deal of discussion in the pages of the 

 Canadian Entomologist, and brought forth a very able paper upon the 

 subject from the pen of Mr. W, H. Edwards, of West Virginia. The 

 question, however, has by no means yet been set at rest and will no doubt 

 continue to exercise us all for some time to come. At the Dubuque 

 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a 

 sub-section of Entomology was formed, and a committee of its adherents 

 specially appointed to consider and report upon a series of rules upon 

 nomenclature. Unhappily — owing to various circumstances — no report 

 was drawn up, though, I must in justice state, that my friend Mr. C. V, 

 Riley, of St. Louis, took a great deal of pains to elicit the views of the 

 members and to draw up some conclusions from them. Last month, at 

 the Portland meeting of the Association — which, to my very great disap- 

 pointment, unavoidable engagements prevented me from attending — a 

 new committee was appointed to re-consider the subject, and we trust that 

 some definite rules will have been decided upon by its members before 

 the meeting of next year at Hartford, Conn. 



You will all, I have no doubt, be gratified to learn that, upon the 

 suggestion of the sub-section of Entomology, the American Association 

 unanimously passed a resolution inviting our Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, as well as the American Entomological Society, to hold a general 

 meeting of our members at Hartford next year during their annual session. 

 I trust that this invitation will be cordially accepted and that a large 

 number of us may there meet our American friends and enlarge and 

 strengthen those cordial feelings of scientific brotherhood which have so 

 long pleasantly existed between us. I may add, as a notable token of 

 the estimation in which our branch of science is now held, that the 

 Association will meet next year under the presidency of our ablest 

 American Entomologist — Dr. J. L. Leconte, of Philadelphia. 



