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meetings were held at the Eoyal Canadian Institute. The President, Dr. C. 

 Gordon Hewitt, occupied the chair during the sessions. 



The annual meeting of the Council was held on Thursday morning. Numerous 

 business matters were discussed and a recommendation was made to the Society 

 that the next annual meeting he held in Ottawa. 



On Thursday afternoon the Keports of the Directors on the insects of the 

 year were read. Dr. Hewitt then delivered the Presidential address on " The Else 

 and Progress of Applied Entomology in Canada.'' Prof. Caesar then delivered a 

 paper on the " Insects of the Season in Ontario." 



On Thursday evening in the Biological Lecture-room of the University Prof. 

 J. H. Comstock, of Cornell University, delivered the Public Lecture on the " Habits 

 of Spiders." The lecture was extremely interesting and was extensively illustrated 

 with magnificent lantern slides. 



The business meeting of the Society was held on Friday morning at 9.30. 

 The reports of the various officers and branches of the Society were read and 

 adopted. The remaining time of the morning and afternoon meetings was occupied 

 with the reading of the following papers : 



" The Work of Fabre," Prof. Lochhead, Macdonald College, Que. 



"Injurious Insects of Quebec in 1914," Prof. Lochhead. (Eead by title.) 



" Injurious Insects of Southern Quebec," Mr. C. E. Petch, Ottawa. (Eead 

 by title.) 



" Outbreak of the Army-worm in Canada in 1914," Mr. Arthur Gibson, 

 Ottawa. 



" The Army-worm in Ontario in 1914," Mr. A. W. Baker, Guelph. 



" Mountains and Hills," Dr. Fyles, Ottawa. 



*' Variation in colour in the bristles of the Hedgehog Caterpillar, Isia Isabella," 

 Mr. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa. 



" Locust Control in Eastern Canada," Mr. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa. 



" An Imported Eed Spider attacking fruit-trees," Prof. Caesar, Guelph. 



" The Entomological Eecord, 1914," Mr. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa. 



" Forest and Shade-tree Insects of the Farm," Mr. J. M. Swaine, Ottawa. 



" Cherry Fruit-flies," Prof. L. Caesar, Guelph. 



The Ca7mdian Eniomolo{]ut, the official orgaD of the Society, has been pub- 

 lished regularly each month. The forty-sixth volume of the magazine was com- 

 pleted in December, 1914. It consisted of 446 pages and was extensively illustrated. 

 This is the largest volume to date. 



The Annual Beport of the Society contained the proceedings of the annual 

 meeting and formed a valuable edition to our entomological literature. 



The regular meetings of the Society were reduced in number owing to military 

 activities at the Ontario Agricultural College. The meetings were chiefly of a 

 business character, but during the year the following papers were read: 



" Some interesting points in the Army-worm Outbreak of 1914," Mr. A. W. 

 Baker. 



" The Study of Entomology," Prof. L. Caesar. 



" Laboratory Methods in Collecting, Preserving and Dissecting Insects," Mr. 

 G. J. Spencer. 



The records show that twenty-four new members have been added to the rolls 

 of the Society during 1914-15. The reports of the branches of the Society for 

 1913-14 all showed a successful year. It is with much pleasure that the Council 

 records the formation, due largely to the efforts of Prof. W. H. Brittain, of a 

 large and flourishing branch of the Society in Nova Scotia. 



