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VOL. VI. LONDON, ONT., OCTOBER, 1874. No. 10 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, 1874. 



To the Members of the Ento)noh'>gical Soeiety of Ontai'io : 



Gentlemen, — I beg to offer you again, after the lapse of a year, my 

 hearty congratulations upon the continued prosperity of our Society. As 

 you have already learnt from the Report of our Secretary-Treasurer, we 

 have been favored with a slight increase in our list of membership — as 

 large, indeed, as can fairly be expected in a Society which confines itself 

 to the study of a particular branch of Natural Science, and which cannot 

 therefore attract into its ranks many who are not specially engaged, to 

 some extent at least, in this limited field of investigation. 



It is especially pleasing to find that our number of branches continues 

 to increase — a highly successful one, with its headquarters in Montreal,. 

 having been organized since our last annual meeting. Its first annual 

 report has been already presented to us in the pages of our journal. 



The Canadian Entomologist, upon whose success the well-being 

 and fair fame of our Society so largely depends, has — I am sure you will 

 all agree with me — been more ably sustained than ever before. The 

 thanks of tlie whole Society are assuredly due to the energetic and 

 talented Editor, Mr. Saunders, who has been, indeed, its mainstay from 

 the issue of its first number until now. It would be well if all our mem- 

 bers would aid him, not only by contributions, but also by increasing the 

 circulation, and thereby improving the means of support of the 

 publication. 



When I applied just now the term " limited " to our field of enquiry,, 

 I only did so when considering Entomology as one amongst a large 

 number of sections of the great circle of natural sciences, which includes 

 within its area the study of all things material which come within the 

 range of man's intellectual powers. If we look, however, at Entomology 

 and its objects alone, we cannot fail to see at once that it is practically 



