3 



Disbursements. 



By Postage $20 25 



" Expenses of Council, Delegations, &c ... 65 00 



" Petty expenses, freight, &c 10 75 



" Annual vote to Editor and Secretary 150 00 



" Expenses on Annual Report 149 74 



" Engraving 13 45 



" Mdse, pins 63 90 



" Printing Entomologist 373 20 



"Mailing " 32 00 



" Paper for " 84 80 



" Insurance 10 63 



" Library 26 25 



" Rent for 1879 80 00 



Balance in hand 152 62 



$1232 69 

 We certify the above to be correct. 



Chas, Chapman, 

 Sept. 18th, 1879. Abm. Puddicombe, 



The report of the Council was read and adopted. • 



AxuLitors. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Your Council feel highly gratified at the success which has attended the efforts of 

 the Society during the past year. Nine years have now passed since oar incorporation ; 

 these have all been prosperous years, and the one we have just completed has not been 

 less so than any of its predecessors. All the operations of the Society have been carried 

 on harmoniously, and we have been able to present the public with many of the results 

 of your investigations which will prove of value to it. 



Our Report to the Government, which you have all had the opportunity of perusing, 

 continues to maintain its interest, if we may judge by the manner in which it is sought 

 after. We think that it is perhaps our best medium for reaching those whose know- 

 ledge of Entomology is limited, and to whom it is necessary to present the science in 

 its more elementary and popular forms, if we would create a taste for its study. The 

 fact that our reports are so much in demand indicate that the science of practical 

 Entomology is rapidly growing in favour among the more intelligent of our 

 agriculturists. 



The new enterprise of the " Fruit Growers' Association," the publication of the 

 Horticulturist, to the pages of which your members contribute largely, will, we trust, 

 be a means of still more widely diffusing Entomological knowledge, as this journal 

 enters the homes of nearly all our horticulturists, and in addition to the many valuable 

 papers on fruits and flowers which it contains, it carries much information on our 

 noxious and beneficial insects. 



One great drawback to the Society's efforts has been the lack of funds to carry on 

 its operations, and to enable us to procure woodcuts and electrotypes to illustrate the 

 pages of our journal. We are satisfied that without figures of the insects we treat of, 

 much of our labour is lost as far as the general public is concerned ; we earnestly hope 

 that before long our annual grant may be sufiiciently increased to enable us to overcome 

 this difficulty. 



Our journal, The Canadian Entomologist, has now completed its eleventh year, and 

 has made a reputation for itself which is second to none in the same department of 



