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is to be hoped now that those interested will take to heart a lesson from past 

 experience and use all the means available, which have been so thoroughly 

 advertised and disseminated by the ofl&cers above-mentioned throughout the 

 length and breadth of the country, so as to keep the pest within due bounds. 



I learn that the San Jose vScale and Codling moth are also well under 

 control by means of the spraying methods practised under the leadership and 

 guidance of the afore-mentioned officers through the instrumentality of this 

 Society. 



The White Cabbage butterfly {P. rapce) and Yellow Clover butterfly (C. 

 phitodice) have been very numerous in places late this season, but they have 

 not apparently done any serious damage. 



Nature study is a suoject gaining much strength and being taken up 

 among the schools all over the country, and is now one of the subjects recom- 

 mended by the Educational Department of Ontario. Steps are being taken 

 at this time to take up the subject in the Trenton schools, and its rootlets 

 have taken hold in most remote outlying districts, even to the most northern 

 extremity of this County of Hastings. 



This subject has repeatedly been brought before the notice of the public 

 by various members of this Society, lectures having been given in London and 

 various places in the neighborhood, at Guelph, Hamilton and elsewhere, by 

 Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Bethune, Prof. Lochhead, Prof. McCready, and others. 

 Particular mention must be made of Prof. John Dearness, who has recently 

 produced "The Nature Study Course," a book designed for the use of those 

 interested in the education of the young, both boys and girls. 



In furtherance of this most commendable study, reference should be made 

 to an illustrated paper, "Practical and Popular Entomology," "Entomology 

 in Schools," by Mr. H. S. Saunders, of Toronto, which appeared in our maga- 

 zine in the February issue of this year, as being deserving of emulation by 

 other members of our Society. 



After the remaining papers on the programme had been read and dis- 

 cussed (they will be found in succeeding pages of this report), President 

 Creelman expressed the pleasure which it had given him and the members of 

 the College to have the annual meeting of the Society in their buildings, and 

 on behalf of the students in Biology, the Wellington Field Naturalists^ Club 

 and the Entomologists, he asked the Society to meet at the Guelph College as 

 often as it possibly could. 



Prof. H. L. HuTT joined in this expression of gratification and sa4d that 

 he had been especially pleased to meet and make the personal acquaintance- 

 ship of many veteran entomologists whose names had long been familiar to 

 him. 



Prof. Lochhead spoke of the importance of this meeting to the students, 

 who would receive a lasting inspiration from it. 



Votes of thanks were unanimously passed to President Creelman and his 

 staff for their kindness and hospitality^; to Prof. J. B. Smith for his welcome 

 visit and most interesting lecture; and to the reporters of the Toronto Globe, 

 the Guelph Herald and Mercury, and the Toronto Weekly Sun, for their ex- 

 cellent accounts of the proceedings. 



