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life history. Mr. R. C. Treherne gave the members present a 

 brief outline of the life history of the Strawberry Root Weevil 

 {Otiorhynchus ovatus) , illustrating his points by means of dia- 

 grammatic charts. 



Mr. Thomas Cunningham gave a long and very interesting 

 paper on the strides that had taken place in the United States 

 and in the world in general in regard to the placing of quarantine 

 measures against injurious insects liable to importation through 

 the medium of trade. His memorandum was listened to with 

 great interest as it contained a summary of all the acts and regu- 

 lations that had been passed during the past few years, and the 

 reasons for the consideration of these acts and regulations and 

 followed his paper with an outline of the insects at present in 

 B. C, and drew attention to the ones liable to importation. 



Mr. Tom Wilson, President, 1912-1913, offered his Presiden- 

 tial Address to the members at the evening session. He drew the 

 attention of the members to the establishment of an in\-esti- 

 gational station under the Dominion Division of Entomology, a 

 fact that will in all probability be accomplished by the spring. 

 He also desired to welcome Mr. Brittain, the recently appointed 

 Entomologist and Plant Pathologist to the Province under the 

 auspices of the Provincial Department of Agriculture. He added 

 his own sorrow to the resolution of commiseration at the recent 

 death of their late President and father of their Society, the Rev, 

 G. W. Taylor of Departure Bay, Vancouver Island, He closed, 

 with a feeling of congratulation at the successful resuscitation of 

 the Society and hoped it would continue as successful as this 

 meeting promised in the future, 



Mr. Arthur H. Bush followed with an account of the Flora 

 and Fauna that was common to meet with in the mountains at 

 high and arctic elevations. He closed with a wish that the 

 Society not forget the systematic side of entomology in its 

 endeavours to become a force in the Province. Dr. Seymour 

 Hadv/en closed the evening session with a lantern slide lecture on 

 Blood-sucking Flies. He Avas able to establish the fact of the 

 existence at Agassiz of the English Warble fly (Hypoderma bovis,) 

 which previously had not l^een recorded as existing on the North 

 American continent. 



