1906 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 39 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



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

 report for the year 1904-5. 



The forty-first annual meeting of the Society was held in London on 

 the 26th and 27th of October, 1904, and was well attended by local members 

 as well as by many from a distance. There were also present Prof. H. F. 

 Wickham, of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, an eminent coleopterist 

 aud an honorary member of the Society, and Mr. T. N. Willing, Chief 

 Inspector of Weeds and Naturalist for the Department of Agriculture, Re- 

 gina, N. W. T. During the first afternoon reports were read from the 

 various Branches, Sections and Officers of the Society, and from the Directors 

 on the notable insects of the year in their respective districts. Mr. Willing 

 gave an interesting account of the methods adopted iu the North-West 

 Territories for controlling noxious weeds and dealing with injurious insects. 



In the evening a public meeting was held at the Normal School at 

 which the President, Professor Lochhead, read his annual address and 

 Prof. Wickham gave an able and interesting paper, illustrated by a large 

 number of lantern slides made from his own photographs, on "The Great 

 Basin in the Western States and its Entomological Features." The second 

 day was taken up with the election of officers and the reading of papers on 

 a variety of entomological subjects. A large number of interesting speci- 

 mens were also exhibited by the members present. 



The 35th Annual Report on economic and general entomology was sent 

 to the Department of Agriculture in January last and in due course was 

 presented to the Legislature of Ontario and ordered to be printed. Owing 

 to changes in the methods adopted by the King's printers and other causes 

 for which we are unable to account, the volume has only just been published. 

 The great delay impairs to some extent the value of the report, and has 

 produced wide-spread complaints from members and correspondents in all 

 directions. 



In addition to the papers already referred to, the volume contains the 

 following among "other articles: "Insects injurious to Ontario crops in 1904" 

 and the valuable "Entomological Record for 1904," by Dr. James Fletcher; 

 "Notes on the Basswood, or Linden insects" and on "The Columbine Borer" 

 by Mr. A. Gibson; "Insect Names and Insects Lists," by Mr. J. B. Williams; 

 "Insects collected at light during 1904," by Mr. J. D. Evans; "Insects 

 affecting the oak," and "the Food habits of certain Hymenoptera," by Rev. 

 Dr. Fyles; "Notes on the Season of 1904 in Western Quebec," by Mr. C. 

 Stevenson; "An elementary study of insects," by Prof. Lochhead; an obitu- 

 ary notice, with portrait of the late J. Alston Moffat. 



The Canadian Entomologist, the monthly magazine of the Society, has 

 been regularly issued. The 36th annual volume was completed in December 

 last and ten numbers of volume 37 have now been published. The volume 

 for 1904 consisted of 367 pages and was illustrated with four full-page 

 plates, one of which was coloured, and a number of figures from original 

 drawings. The contributors numbered 63 and included writers in Canada, 

 the United States and England. The articles are for the most part scientific 

 and contain, among much other highly valuable matter, descriptions of 217 

 new species and varieties and 11 new genera in various orders of insects. 

 The material contained in the volumes of our magazine is so important and 

 necessary to scientific workers that there is a constant demand from variout 

 parts of the world for complete sets or separate volumes and numbers. 



During the winter months classes were held fortnightly on Saturdaj^ 

 evenings for practical instruction in the elements of entomology as a basis 



