130 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



proposes that the following should be included in a zone to be named 

 Vancouverafi : That portion on the southern side of the inner Aleutian 

 Islands, South-eastern Alaska and the Islands of the Coast, Western 

 British Columbia, including the islands. Western Washington, the western 

 portion of Northern Oregon, and a strip along the coast of California, to 

 a little south of San Francisco Bay. That this zone has not been included 

 in our scheme is not evidence of its non-acceptance, for we believe that 

 Mr. Van Dyke's proposal is supported by a number of facts. Pending 

 further investigation, however, we have deemed it advisable to restrict 

 ourselves to the zones already indicated. — [C Gordon Hewitt. 



REPORT ON THE CELEBRATION OF THE CENTENNARY 

 OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE ACADEMY OF NA- 

 TURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



BY F. M. WEBSTER, 

 Delegate from the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



This noted gathering was, thanks to the united efforts of the mem- 

 bers, an entire success. The entire world of letters, personified by a 

 company of more than one hundred distinguished men and women, repre- 

 senting the institutions of learnings and scientific societies of this country 

 and Europe, participated in the ceremonies. The fine new lecture hall of 

 the academy was given over to the carrying out of the set programme, made 

 up of papers on purely scientific subjects, prepared and read by the dis- 

 tinguished delegates at the meeting. 



On the platform were seated Mayor Blackenburg ; Dr. Samuel G. 

 Dixon, president of the academy ; Sir James Grant, of the Royal Society 

 of Canada ; Dr. Edward J. Nolan and Dr. J. Percy Moore, the secretaries. 



Among the smaller social events in connection with the centennial 

 celebration was a dinner given by Dr. Henry Skinner, of the academy, at 

 his home in Glenn road, Ardmore. There were present the following 

 delegates, representing the entomologists, in which particular branch of 

 natural science Dr. Skinner is especially interested : Dr. W. J. Holland, 

 of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Professor J. H. Comstock, of Cor- 

 nell University; Profet^sor C. W. Johnson, of Boston, representing the 

 Boston Society of Natural History ; E. T. Cresson, of Philadelphia, repre- 

 senting the American Entomological Society, of which he was founder ; 

 Dr. Philip P. Calvert, of the University of Pennsylvania, representing the 

 Sociedad Aragonesa de Oiencias Naturales, and Professor F. M. Webster, 

 Washington, D.C., representing the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



Mav, 1912 



