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the Society. Many members are absent on military service ; where the dues of these 

 members have not been paid they have been retained in member.-hip without 

 payment of dues wherever the Council knew they w'ere in service. 



It is with much regret that the Council has to record the loss of Captain 

 E. V, Harvey", for many years the energetic Secretary of the British Columbia 

 Brancli, who was severely wounded in action in France and died in a Gorman 

 prison. We have also to deplore the loss of one of our esteemed honorary members, 

 Mr. F. ]y[. "Webster, chief of the section of Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations 

 in the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, D.C., who died at Columbus, Ohio, 

 immediately after the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science on the 2nd of January last. He was elected an honorary member of 

 our Society in October, 1899, and always took an interest in our proceedings. 

 His last visit to us w^as in August, 1913, when he attended our Jubilee meeting 

 and read an interesting paper. An appreciative obituary notice by Dr. Hewitt 

 was published in the March number of The Canadian Entomologist. 



EEPOET OF THE CUEATOE. 



During the past year no accessions have been made to the Society's collec- 

 tions. They have all been gone over several times and are kept entirely free 

 from Museum pests. Donations of uncommon species of Lepidoptera and Cole- 

 optera, and of almost anything in the other orders, would be very acceptable and 

 gratefully acknowledged. 



G. J. Spexcer, Curator. 



EEPOET OF THE LIBEAEIAX. 



During the year ending October 31st, 1916, forty-two bound volumes have 

 been added to the Lil)rary, making the numlier on the register 2,262. A large num- 

 ber of unbound bulletins, reports, periodicals and pamphlets continue to be 

 received from authors and publishers and in exchange for The Cmmdian Ento- 

 mologist. !Many of these are arranged in pamphlet-cases, and can be referred to 

 without much difficulty. A certain amount of binding has been done recently, 

 and, if funds permit, a considerable number more of important periodicals will 

 be rendered available in this way for easy reference and a permanent place 

 upon the slielves. 



The excellent Library that we possess is being constantly made use of by 

 the stafE and students of the Biological Department of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, and to some extent by members of the Society at a distance. 



Bespectfully submitted, 



Charles J. S. Bethune^ Lihrarian. 



