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all enquirers useful information about the insects that might be affecting 

 their crops or gardens. He then referred to many common injuries 

 and related the best means of dealing with them, and gave an 

 account of what might be termed the " first-class pests " of the season, 

 among these he specially mentioned the cut-worms and grass-hoppers, 

 which had been more than usually numerous and destructive in many 

 parts of the Province. He concluded his address, which was listened to 

 with great interest and attention for upwards of an hour, by expressing 

 the pleasure it gave to the members of the Society to observe the growth 

 of their science in popularity, a fact evidenced by the attendance that 

 evening of so many distinguished persons. 



The Hon. C. W. Drury next addressed the meeting. He said that 

 he had not come to deliver a speech, but he had travelled five hundred 

 miles in order that as the head of the Agricultural Department of Ontario 

 he might show the importance which the Government he represented 

 attached to the work of the Entomologists. He considered that the 

 small grant annually made to the funds of the Society was amply repaid 

 by its practical work, and mentioned as an instance the immense saving 

 to the country effected by the discovery of the remedy for the clover- 

 seed midge 



Sir James Grant spoke in graceful terms and delivered a very interest- 

 ing address. He described the importance of Entomology in its various 

 aspects, and referred to the work of some of its greatest masters, from 

 Aristotle and Pliny, in ancient times, to LeConte, who had described so 

 enormous a number of species of beetles and whose lamented death was 

 so great a loss to science. He described its relation to other depart- 

 ments, especially to medicine, and mentioned as an instance the fact that 

 bacteria had been introduced into the blood by the bite of mosquitoes. 

 He paid a high compliment to the President for his practical and interest- 

 ing address, and for his enthusiastic devotion to the science which had 

 deservedly won for him the recognition of the Dominion Government. 



Professor Saunders rose to move a vote of thanks to the President for 

 his valuable address. Pie gave a short account of the history of the 

 Society and its work, and mentioned the fact that there were only two of 

 the original members present besides himself, viz.: Dr. Bethune and Mr. 

 E. Baynes Reed, who had been concerned in its organization twenty-five 

 years ago. Sir James Grant seconded die vote of thanks, which was put 

 to the meeting by Dr. Bethune and unanimously carried. 





