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with work in entomology? I have known Dr. Fyles for over twenty years; I am 

 sorry I have not known him longer, for I might have been a better man. About 

 twenty years ago I came into contact with a small number of men older than 

 myself, I might say a generation older — Dr. Fyles, Dr. Bethune and Dr. Fletcher, 

 a little younger than these two. I met them all at the Annual Meeting in London, 

 in 1895 or 1896. These men, I think you will all have observed, have given great 

 attention to the literary form in which they express themselves. I have said 

 very frequently in reading over their papers (take the old Entomological Society 

 Eeports of Dr. Bethune or Dr. Fletcher, for example) that they were masters 



Megarhyssa atrata ovipositing on maple, ap- 

 proximately natural size. Photograph by 

 Charles Macnamara, Arnprior, Ont. 



of English, and we are not keeping up to the standard they set in this respect. 

 I agree with our Chairman that more attention should be given to the form in 

 which our reports and papers are prepared. This is not the first paper I have 

 heard from Dr. Fyles during all that time, for he has seldom been absent from 

 the meetings. Then in addition, we have had him several times in attendance 

 at our meetings of the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants at Macdonald 

 College. While Dr. Fyles is a strong member of the Ontario Entomolgical Society, 

 yet I think his heart is in Quebec, where he has laboured so long. While he 

 cannot come down to our meetings as he used to, yet we always feel that his 

 heart is with us, and his mind and thoughts are with us at our Annual Meetings. 

 I hope he will be able to come down for the next meeting. I rise simply to 

 show my appreciation of the valuable work that Dr. Fyles has done in connection 

 with the Society. 



