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ment, Boston, Mass. ; Gipsy Moth Parasite Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. ; 

 New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, Durham, N.H. ; Department of 

 Agriculture, Augusta, Me. ; Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Me. ; 

 Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington, Vt. I should like to express 

 again my sincere thanks to those of my fellow-workers whom I met, for their kindness 

 and help. One result of the inquiries made during the visits was the passing of a 

 regulation by Order-in-Council, under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act, providing 

 for the inspection of nursery stock from the States qf Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island for the Brown-tail and Gipsy Moths. 



The annual meeting of the Canadian Horticultural Association at St. Catharines, 

 Gut., was attended on August 11 at the request of the Association to explain the 

 Destructive Insect and Pest Act as affecting the importation of florist stock into 

 Canada. As the result of a consideration of their representations some amendments in. 

 the regulations were made to obviate hardships which might otherwise occur. 



On September 19 I left Ottawa for the western provinces and British Columbia 

 in connection with the inspection and fumigation work of the Division and to discuss 

 with the provincial Departments of Agriculture means of co-operation in respect of 

 controlling injurious insects and reporting their occurrences, etc. In so wide a coun- 

 try such co-operation is essential and I am convinced that the meetings which I had 

 will help to forward the work. By arrangement with the provincial and civic Medical 

 Officers of Health I lectured in the following cities on the relation of house flies to 

 public health: Winnipeg, Man.; Begina and Saskatoon, Sask. ; Edmonton, Alta. ; 

 Vancouver, B.C. ; and before the Natural History Society of British Columbia in Vic- 

 toria, B.C. On Vancouver Island, the outbreak of the Spruce Budworm was again 

 investigated, and I travelled as far as Nanaimo. This year I visited the Okanagan 

 Valley and again passed through the Kootenay region. After visiting Lethbridge, 

 Alta., I returned direct to Ottawa, arriving back on October 29. 



The annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario was attended on 

 November 3 and 4. Mr. Gibson also attended and accounts of our work were given. 

 On November 28 a public lecture was delivered at Halifax, N.S., on the Tussock and 

 Brown-tail Moths, at the request of the citizens. I addressed the annual meeting of 

 the Nova Scotia Eruit Growers' Association at Windsor, N.S., on November 29 and 

 the annual meeting of the Prince Edward Island Eruit Growers' Association at Char- 

 lottetown, P.E.I., on December 1. After visiting Truro and Quebec I addressed the 

 annual meeting of the Quebec Pomological Society at St. Hyacinthe, P.Q., on Decem- 

 ber 6. 



The Canadian Forestry Association convention, which was held at Quebec on 

 January 18 and 20, was attended and I delivered an illustrated lecture on the Spruce 

 Budworm and Larch Sawfiy. After the convention I visited the Chicoutimi region to 

 study the outbreak of the Spruce Budworm, and afterwards, on January 31 to Feb- 

 ruary 2, the depredations of the same insect were investigated in the Rouge River in 

 the neighbourhood of St. Jovite and Trembling Mountain, P.Q., on which visit I was 

 accompanied by Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forestry Engineer of the Forest Service of 

 Quebec. 



Full use has been made of the collections of Canadian insects belonging to the 

 Division, by collectors, teachers and students of entomology in all parts of Canada. 

 Slowly but surely we are arranging and building up the collection. I must again 

 tiacerely thank all those specialists in Canada and the United States, especially Dr. 

 Jioward and his staff of the Bureau of Entomology, at Washington, D.C., for their 

 oft repeated kindnesses in determining material for vis. Many of the injurious insects 

 are being mounted in Riker cases for exhibition purposes and they have already proved 

 of considerable assistance in educational work. 



During the summer months, from May to October, with occasional visits- in the 

 winter, the work of spraying in keeping in order the orcbards of the Jndian reserves 

 in British Columbia has been carried on by the Division for the Department of Indian 



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