The Entomological Society of Ontario 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario was 

 held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on Thursday and Friday, 

 November 2nd and 3rd, 1916. The President of the Society, Mr, A. F, Wixx, 

 Westmount P.Q., occupied the chair. The following were present during the 

 sessions : Dr. L. 0. Howard, Chief; of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D.C.; Prof. P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N.Y. ; Prof. E. M. Walker, University of 

 Toronto; Prof. W. Lochhead, Macdonald College, P.Q.; Prof. W. H. Brittain, 

 Truro, N.S.; Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Messrs. A. Gibson and J. M. Swaine, Ento- 

 mological Branch, Ottawa; Messrs. W. H. Harrington and F. W. L. Sladen, 

 Ottawa ; Eev. Father Leopold, La Trappe, P.Q. ; Mr. F. J. A. Morris, Peter- 

 borough ; Mr. J. Dunlop, Woodstock ; Prof. J. Dearness, London ; Mr. W. A. Ross, 

 Vineland Station; Mr, W. E. Biggar, Hamilton; Mr. N. Criddle, Treesbank, 

 Man.; Mr. A. B. Baird, Fredericton, X.B. ; Professors C. A. Zavitz, J. E. Howitt, 

 C. J. S. Bethune, L. Caesar, J. W, Crow, D. H. Jones, E, J. Zavitz and S. B. 

 McCreadv, Dr. E. E. Stone, Capt. G. J. Spencer, Messrs. A. W. Baker, A. H. 

 Tomlinson, G. H. Unwin, C. R. Klinck, G. F. Kingsmill, E. Hearle, A. W. Guild, 

 R. M, Alton, J. B. McCurry and W. Evans, Ontario Agricultural College. 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held in the Entomological 

 Laboratory, at which the report of the proceedings during the past year was 

 drawn up and various matters relating to the Society's welfare were discussed. 

 A recommendation was made that Mr. John D. Evans, of Trenton, a past Presi- 

 dent of the Society and a most useful adherent for many years, should be elected 

 a life member. This was subsequently done at the general meeting. It was 

 decided that the next annual meeting be held at Macdonald College, Que. The 

 President proposed that information regarding the principal collections of ipsects 

 in Canada, both public and private, should be procured and published in the 

 Canadimi Entomologist from time to time. 



At 1.30 p.m., the Society met in the Entomological Lecture-room. The 

 President, Dr. Hewitt, took the chair and the proceedings commenced with the 

 reading of the reports of the various officers of the Society and directors of the 

 various divisions on the insects of the vear. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario begs to present its 

 report for the year 1915-1916. 



The Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the Society was held at Ottawa on 

 Thursday and Friday, November 4th and 5th, 1915; the President, Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, occupied the chair. The attendance was very gratifying, members being 

 present from nearly every Province of the Dominion, and also several eminent 

 entomologists from the United States, and Mr. C. P, Lounsbury, Chief of the 

 Division of Entomology, Pretoria, South Africa. A large number of papers of 

 interest and importance were read and discussed. The usual public lecture was 



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