THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 17 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO.— ANNUAL 



MEETING. 



The Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov., 19th. and 

 20th. During the day meetings, which were held at the Carnegie 

 Library, the chair was occupied by the president, Dr. E. M. 

 Walker, while the evening meeting, held at the Normal School, 

 was opened by the Hon. Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture. 



Among those present were the Rev. T. W. Fyles, Dr. C. G. 

 Hewitt, Messrs. J. H. Grisdale, W. H. Harrington, A. Gibson, 

 J. M. Swaine, F. W. L. Sladen, J. A. Guignard, J. I. Beaulne and 

 Rev. Bro. Germain, Ottawa; Messrs. H. H. Lyman and A. F. Winn, 

 Montreal; Prof. W. Lochhead, Macdonald College, Que.; Mr. J. 

 D. Evans, Trenton; Prof. J. E. Howitt, Messrs. L. Ca?sar and A. 

 W. Baker, Guelph; Dr. R. Matheson, Truro, N. S.; Mr. A. G. 

 Turney, Fredericton, N. B.; Rev. Father Marcotte, Sherbrooke, 

 Que.; Rev. J. B. Mignault, St. Therese, Que., and Messrs. J. B. 

 Tothill, G. Beaulieu, G. E. Sanders, W. A. Ross, H. F. Hudson, 

 C. E. Petch, Field Officers of the Division of Entomology. 



On Tuesday morning the members met at the Experimental 

 Farm, where a pleasant hour was spent looking over the specimens 

 exhibited by those present and in examining the fine collections 

 belonging to the Division. A meeting of the Council took place 

 at eleven o'clock at which the report of the proceedings of the 

 Society during the past year was drawn up and various questions 

 of interest to the Society were discussed. A committee was 

 appointed to consider certain changes in the constitution of the 

 Society, which were proposed at a recent meeting at Guelph. In 

 view of the fact that next year will mark the event of the Society's 

 fiftieth annual meeting, it was decided that a Jubilee meeting be 

 held in honour of the occasion, to which delegates from other 

 Societies be invited and that this meeting be held at Guelph, 

 about the beginning of September, the exact date to be decided 

 upon later. A special committee was appointed to take charge of 

 (he arrangements in connection with the meeting. 



In the afternoon the Society met at the Carnegie Library, the 

 proceedings commencing with the reading of the reports of the 

 various officers of the society, including those of three of the 

 directors on the insects of the year in their respective districts, 

 viz., Messrs A. Gibson, Ottawa; A. Cosens, Toronto; and W. A. 

 Ross, Jordan Harbour. These were followed by the reports of the 

 Montreal, Toronto and British Columbia branches. 



The Annual Address was then delivered by the president, 

 Dr. Walker, the subject being "Faunal Zones of Canada." 



