REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST 203 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



[Mrs. R. N. Stoker, Cowichan Lake, B.C. — A large collection of the seeds of rare 

 British Columbian plants. 



Meetings. — Meetings of farmers' institutes and other agricultural associations, 

 teachers' associations, &c., have been attended and addresses delivered whenever other 

 official duties would permit: — 



April 17 : Toronto. — Ontario Educational Association : ' Nature Study and Na- 

 tural History.' 



May 8: Ottawa. — Ottawa Horticultural Society: 'Insect Enemies of the Gard- 

 ener and how to prepare for them.' 



May 14: Petewawa, Ont. — Inspecting Central Camp and giving advice as to con- 

 trolling sand. 



May 17: Guelph, Ont. — Ontario Agricultural College. Address to Nature Study 

 class: 'Life Zones and the Value of Nature Study.' 



May 17: Guelph. — Ontario Agricultural College. Illustrated lecture to 3rd year 

 students: 'Insects and Nature Study.' 



May 29: Ottawa. — Address to Fro-bel Union: 'Nature Studies for Kindergarten 

 classes.' 



July 5 : Ottawa. — Summer School of Science. Address on ' Insects.' 



July 9 : Ottawa. — Summer School of Science. Address on ' Birds.' 



July 12: Ottawa. — Summer School of Science. Address on 'Insects.' 



July 16: Ottawa. — Summer School of Science. Address on 'Birds.' 



August 29 and 30: Chateauguay Basin, Que. — Pomological and Fruit-growing 

 Association of the Province of Quebec : 1. ' Fruit Insects of the season.' 2. ' House 

 Plants and their Culture.' 3. ' The preparation of House Plants for Winter.' 4. 

 ' Injurious Insects and their Control.' 



December 12: Wolfville, N.S. — Fruit-growers' Association of Nova Scotia: 1. 

 • Insects Injurious to Nova Scotian Orchards in 1906.' 2. ' Nature Study and Na- 

 1 ural History.' 



December 17: St. John. N.B. — Natural History Society of New Brunswick: 

 ' Insects, what they do and where they are found.' 



December 19 and 20: Ivnowlton, Que. — 1. 'Orchard Insects in the Province of 

 Quebec in 1906.' 2. ' Garden Insects and their Control.' 



January 19, 1907: Toronto. — Canadian Institute: 'Some things that every one 

 ought to know about Plants and Insects.' 



February 14 : Ottawa. — McLeod Street Sunday School : ' The value of definite 

 knowledge of common things.' 



March 6: Ottawa. — Select Standing Committee of the House of Commons on 

 Agriculture and Colonization: Evidence on the work of the Division and particularly 

 on the San Jose Scale situation. 



March 8 : St. Catharines. — Niagara Fruit-Growers' Association : ' The San Jose 

 Scale and its Control.' 



March 8 : St. Catharines. — St. Catharines Horticultural Society : ' Injurious 

 Insects and their Habits.' 



- March 11: Toronto. — Address in the Normal School: 'Spring work in Nature 

 Study.' 



March 22 : Ottawa. — Ottawa Ladies' College. Addresses : 1. ' Insects and Plants, 

 Injurious and Beneficial.' 2. ' Knowledge of Common Things a Duty.' 



[March 26: Ottawa. — Normal School: 'Nature Study work with Birds.' 



Correspondence. — The large correspondence of the Division has been of the usual 

 varied character and shows a considerable increase in the number of letters received 

 and answered. From April 1, 1906, to March 30, 1907, the number of letters, exclusive 

 of circulars, registered as received, was 3,372, and the number despatched was 2,8G2. 

 Of the letters sent out many are of the nature of articles for publication, as very 

 frequently correspondents hand them to the local newspapers, so that their neighbours 



