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malaria and yellow fever, which are transmitted only by particular species 

 of mosquitoes. The address was illustrated by many excellent lantern slides. 



On the following morning the members spent a pleasant hour in the 

 Biological Museum, where many interesting specimens were exhibited by 

 those present. At 10.30 o'clock the proceedings were resumed in the 

 Biological Lecture Hall, the president, Dr. E. M. Walker, opening the 

 meeting with the reading of the presidential address, which dealt with the 

 entomological field in Canada at the present time and the directions 

 along which progress in this science maybe expected in in the near future. 



In the afternoon the following papers were read : "Some Forest 

 Insects from De Grassi Point, Lake Simcoe,"' by Dr. Walker ; '-Thrips 

 Affecting Cereals," by Dr. Hewitt ; "The Stream," by Dr. Fyles ; "Blister 

 Beetles," by Mr. Arthur Gibson ; "A Parasite of Hepialus Thule," by 

 Mr. A. F. Winn ; "Common Ipid?e of Eastern Canada," by Prof. J. M. 

 Swaine; "Insect Migrations in Manitoba," by Mr. Norman Griddle ; "The 

 Catalogue of Canadian Insects," by Dr. Hewitt; "Entomological Record 

 for 191 1," by Mr. Gibson; and "Notes on Hepialus hyperboreus," 

 by Mr. Horace Dawson. 



The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : 



President — Dr. Edmund M. Walker, Lecturer in Zoology, University 

 of Toronto. 



Vice- President — Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, 

 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



Secretary-Treasurer — Mr. A. W. Baker, B. S. A., Demonstrator in 

 Entomology, O. A. College, Guelph. 



Curator — Mr. Lawson Caesar, B. A., B. S. A., Lecturer in Ento- 

 mology and Plant Diseases, O. A. College. 



Librarian— ^^v. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., D. C. L., F. R. S. C, 

 Professor of Entomology and Zoology, O. A. College. 



Directors— \)W\'s\ox\ No. i, Mr. Arthur Gibson, Div. of Entomology, 

 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa ; Division No. 2, Mr. C. E. Grant, 

 Orillia ; Division No. 3, Mr. A. Cosens, Parkdale Collegiate Institute, 

 Toronto ; Division No. 4, Mr. C. W. Nash, East Toronto ; Division No. 

 5, Mr. R. S. Duncan, Port Hope ; Division No. 6, Mr. R. S. Hamilton, 

 Collegiate Institute, Gait; Division No. 7, Mr. W. A. Ross, Jordan 

 Harbour. 



Delegate to the Royal Society— Y ïoî. J. M. Swaine, Macdonald 

 College, P. Q. 



Auditors- -Vioi. J. E. Howitt and Mr. W. A. McCubbin, Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College. 



