THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held, at which 

 the report of the proceedings of the Society during the past year was 

 drawn up and various matters of interest to its members were discussed 

 In acceptance of an invitation from Dr. Hewitt, it was decided to hold 

 the next annual meeting at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, the 

 exact date to be decided upon later. Prof. J. H. Comstock of Cornell 

 University, and Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New York, were 

 York, were elected Honorary Members of the Society. Mr. E. Baynes 

 Reed^ Meteorological Station, Victoria, B. C, was elected a Life Member. 



In the afternoon the proceedings commenced with the reading of the 

 reports of the following directors on the insects of the year in their 

 respective districts : Mr. A. Gibson, Ottawa ; Mr. C. E. Grant, Onllia • 

 Mr. A. Cosens, Toronto, and Mr. R. C. Treherne, Grimsby. Dr. Hewitt 

 then gave an account of the work of the Division of Entomology, which 

 showed that, with a much increased and most efficient staff, gratifying 

 progress was being made along many lines of entomological work, par- 

 ticularly in the establishment of tîeld stations in various parts of the 

 country, in the campaign against the Brown-tail Moth and in the study of 

 the parasites of the Larch Saw-fly and Spruce Bud-worm. Mr. Caesar 

 then read an extended and valuable paper on the insects of the year in 

 Ontario, which was discussed at considerable length by many of those 

 present. This was followed by a paper bv Dr. Fyles, "Notes on the 

 Season of 1911," after which the reports of the Montreal and Toronto 

 branches and of the Treasurer, Curator and Librarian of the Society were 

 read and adopted. 



In the evening a public meeting was held in the Massey Hall Audi- 

 torium, which, considering the inclt-mency of the weather, was fairly well 

 attended by students of the college and visit(»rs from the town, as well as 

 by members of the Society. 



President Creelman, who occupied the chair, opened the meeting 

 with a short address of welcome in his usual coidial manner. Dr. William 

 Riley, of Cornell University, who-was to have bren the speaker of the 

 evening, was unfortunately prevented by illness fiom being present, but 

 his place was ably fille J by Dr. Hewitt, whose address on "Insect Scourges 

 of Mankind" was listened to with great interest and attention by those 

 present. He gave a very thorough account of various diseases, the germs 

 of which are carried from one patient to another through the agency of 

 insects, dwelling especially upon the Sleeping Sickness and other tropical 

 diseases caused by trypanosomes and tran-mittt d by Tse-tse flies, and on 



