20 . REPORT OF No. 19 



EVENING SESSION. 



Wednesday, October lOth, 1906. 



A public meeting was beld in the Massey Hall of the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College at 8 o'clock, p.m. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the 

 weather, the first snowstorm of the season prevailing at the time, the large 

 hall was nearly filled with an appreciative audience, including" many of the 

 students from the College and Macdonald Institute and some visitors from 

 the city of Guelph. The chair was taken by Dr. Fletcher, the Yice-President, 

 who opened the proceedings by congratulating the Society upon its success- 

 ful removal from London to Guelph, and on the excellent arrangements that 

 have been made for its library and collections by the authorities of the On- 

 tario Agricultural College. He believed that the Society would fully ap- 

 preciate its new home and find its usefulness was very greatly extended by 

 its being placed in the midst of an enthusiastic band of young men and 

 women students. When these completed their courses of instruction they 

 would scatter all over the country, and carry with them much they had 

 le&rned through the instrumentality of the Society; many of them, too, would 

 become active members here and continue their connection after they had 

 left He looked forward with confidence to the bright days in store for the 

 Society in which it would fulfil the duties that devolved upon it in a larger 

 measure than ever before. 



Peesidei^i Creelman gave a warm and hearty welcome to the Society 

 and expressed the pleasure that he and all connected with the College felt in 

 having its headquarters in their midst. Last year he was proud of the meet- 

 ing, which was held here at the College, and wished that we might have it 

 every year; now he was glad to say that this had come to pass and that these 

 annual meetings would, as a rule, be alwaj-s held here. This Ontario Ento- 

 mological Societj^ is a great Society, not so much in numbers as in the value 

 of the work that it has accomplished, and which it continues to perform. 

 He thSn spoke of the two systems of education and pointed out the advan- 

 tages to be obtained from a combination of a knowledge of natural history 

 with a good general education; this he considered much superior to the old- 

 fashioned methods in which the pupil grew up without any knowledge of the 

 common objects in the world about him. The practical value of Entomologj^ 

 to farmers and fruit-growers he did not think could be over-estimated ; if put 

 into figures, it would mean nothing below millions of dollars. He was es- 

 pecially gratified that the chairman had described their new quarters as 

 "home," and trusted that it would continue to be their home for many a 

 year to come. He then placed at their disposal everything that the College 

 could offer for their comfort and convenience, and trusted that the meeting 

 would be both profitable and enjoyable. 



The chairman then called upon Mr. John D. Evans, of Trenton, the 

 President of the Entomological Society, to read his address. This was fol- 

 lowed by a paper by Prof. Lochhead, of Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de 

 I^ellevue, P.Q., on "What the Entomological Society of Ontario can do for 

 the Ontario Agricultural College." In the absence of the writer, who was 

 unavoidably prevented from being present, the paper was read by Prof. 

 McCready. Mr. Paul Hahn, of Toronto, then gave a description of a canoe 

 trip for entomological purposes in the Algonquin Park, and illustrated his 

 remarks with a number of beautiful and interesting lantern slides made from 

 his original photographs. A hearty vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hahn 

 for his entertaining address. The proceedings of the evening were much 

 enlivened by musical selections, both vocal and instrumental, furnished by 

 the College Philharmonic Society. 



