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go with him for a very large measure of his success in his new 

 sphere of action. 



Entomological Society of Ontario. The 45th annual 

 meeting of this important society was held at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph, on November 5th and 6th. The meeting 

 was a most successful one and much interest was shown in the 

 various papers read at the different sessions. The whole of the 

 first afternoon was taken up in a discussion of the chief insect 

 pests of the season, fruit insects being speciallv treated of. At 

 the first evening meeting Dr. E. P. Felt, New York State Ento- 

 mologist, of Albany, delivered a splendid lecture on "The Inter- 

 pretation of Nature." This was illustrated with particularly 

 good slides. At the second evening meeting Re\-. Dr. Fyles, 

 of Levis, Que., in his own charming manner spoke on "The 

 Farmers' Woodlot"; Prof. W. Lochhead, of Macclonald College, 

 on "What the Fruit Grower and Farmer should know about 

 Entomology" and Rev. Prof. Bethune on "Injurious Insects in 

 Ontario in 1908." At this meeting too, a paper on "The Present 

 condition of the work connected with the importation of foreign 

 parasites of the Gypsy and the Brown-tail Moths," by Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, of Washington, D.C., was read. Besides Prof. Lochhead 

 and Rev. Prof. Bethune, other members of the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club who attended the meeting and contributed 

 papers were: Messrs. C. W. Nash and J. B. Williams, of Toronto; 

 H. H. Lyman, of Montreal; F. Morris, of Port Hope; and 

 Arthur Gibson, of Ottawa. Mr. J. D. Evans, of Trenton, was 

 unable to attend the meeting, but sent two verv interesting 

 papers which were read. The Entomological Societv of Ontario 

 is doing splendid work in Canada. It has five active Branches, 

 viz : at Quebec, Montreal, Toronto. Guelph and Victoria. A 

 full account of the proceedings of the above meeting will be found 

 in the annual report of the Society v/hich Avill soon be published. 



The Occurrence of the American Woodcock (Philo- 

 HELA minor) in MANITOBA. — On August 10th, while hunting 

 insects in an old river-course — now a partiallv dried slough — 

 near Westbourne, Manitoba, Mr. H. E. Chaplin, of Roland, and 

 I were surprised at flushing a bird which we instantly recognized 

 as the Woodcock. A few minutes' search was rewarded by 

 finding the characteristic holes made by the bird, but no other 

 Woodcock was seen. On mentioning the incident to Mr. Fred 

 Rhind, of Westbourne, he told me that some twentv years ago 

 a number of Woodcocks had been shot about the same spot 

 we had seen the bird, but that of late years they had not been 

 noticed. He also stated that in 1902, or 190,3. Woodcocks were 



