CONTENTS 



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Letter of Transmission 5 



Officers for 1916-1917 6 



Financial Statement 6 



List of Members 7 



Annual Meeting 9 



Report of the Council • 9 



" Curator H 



" Librarian 11 



" Montreal Branch 12 



" Toronto Branch 12 



" Nova Scotia Branch 13 



Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada 14 



Reports on Insects for the Year: Division No. 1, A. Gibson 15 



" 3, A. CosENS 18 



" " 5, F. J. A. Morris 20 



- - • " " 6, J. W. Noble 24 



" 7, W. A. Ross 25 



The Naturalist in the City: T. W. Fyles 28 



Dusting Fruit Trees and Grapes for the control of diseases and biting insects: 



L. Caesar 31 



General notes on Aphides which occur on Apple Trees: W. A. Ross 43 



Notes on Physonota unipuncta: A. F. Winn 50 



Notes on use of Repellents for horn flies and stable flies: A. W. Baker 52 



The Relation of Insects to Disease: L. O. Howard 57 



The Wood of Desire: F. J. A. Morris 62 



Insects as Material for Studies in Heredity: W. Lochhead 66 



History of the Forest Tent Caterpillar and Fall Webworm in North America: 



A. B. Baird '^3 



Camp Hygiene: G. J. Spencer 87 



The Experimental Results in Apple Maggot Control: W. H. Brittain 89 



Experiments on the Control of Locusts with Coccobacillus acridiorum: E. M. 



Du Porte and F. Vanderleck 91 



Some Features of Interest in connection with our Studies of Forest and Shade 



Tree Insects: J. M. Swaine 95 



Notes on Some Insects of the Season: L. Caesar 106 



Three Important Greenhouse Pests: A. Gibson Ill 



Experiments in the Control of the Poplar and Willow Borer: R. Matheson 122 



The Fruit Tree Leaf Roller in New York State: G. W. Herrick 132 



The Entomological Record : A. Gibson 137 



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