22 REPORT OF No. 19 



0. A. College, and a goodly mimber of tlie names added from year to year 

 will continue on as active members long after tbey have severed their close 

 connection with the College and drifted off to the four quarters of the globe. 



An agreement has been entered into by and between the 0. A. College 

 and the Entomological Society of Ontario whereby the College provides 

 ample accommodation for the Society's Library, Collections and business 

 requirements, free of rent and completely under its own control in every 

 respect, and subject to the withdrawal of the same by the Society at any 

 time they may be disposed to do so. 



This present occasion is the Forty-Third Annual Meeting of the So- 

 ciety. During all these long years this occurrence has come around regularly 

 and without a break. 



It was in 1863 (quoting from E-ev. Dr. Bethune's "Rise and Progress 

 of Entomology in Canada," printed in the Transactions of the Royal Society 

 of Canada and read May 26th, 1898,) that the Society had its inception at 

 a meeting held in Toronto at the residence of Prof. Croft. 



In 1872 the headquarters were moved to London, Ont., where it has re- 

 mained up to the present year. It is with feelings of great regret that we 

 have to renounce old associations of such long standing, but a change was 

 imperatively necessary.. It is hoped and expected that the move recently 

 made will give a fresh impetus to the good works performed by the Society 

 in the past and that it will now enter upon a new lease of life with its range 

 of possibilities greatly augmented. 



The quantity of new literature issued during the past year has been 

 quite up to the standard. Not only the usual number of periodicals, maga- 

 zines and reports of State, Federal and Provincial authorities have been 

 regularly issued, but reference might be made to several new books, notably 

 a new work on "Entomology," with special reference to its Biological and 

 Economic aspects, by Dr. Justus Watson Eolsom, in which are numerous 

 illustrations, many of them being entirely new and of a high grade.. 



Also "A Glossary of terms used in Entomology," by Dr. John B. Smith, 

 a much needed work which will prove of great service k» very many entomo- 

 logists. 



We must all deplore the great destruction of property and loss of life 

 occasioned by the appalling earthquake and fire in San Francisco in the 

 early part of the year and express our heart-felt sympathy with the rescued 

 and sufferers. This, no doubt, has been the occasion of the most extensive 

 and irreparable loss the world has ever known of both private and public 

 collections of Insects and of Libraries relating to the same. 



The season of 1906 has been an unusual one. The winter was extremely 

 mild, especially the months of January and February, with a very light 

 snow fall. This was followed by a very dry, cold backward spring and a 

 very wet June ; July, August and September being noted for the excessively 

 hot and unusually dry weather. 



Insect depredations, so far as I have been able to ascertain, have been 

 but slight or of little consequence. The pea-weevil has not given any trouble. 

 Numerous instances of the nests of the Fall-web worm, Hyphantria cunea, 

 Dru., have been observed on apple, elm and other trees, but no serious injury 

 done. 



In the vicinity of Frankford a number of cases occurred where isolated 

 oak trees had been completely defoliated, caused probably by the Forest 

 Caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria, Hub. Attempts were made to procure 

 some of the insects, but too late ; it was reported that they had died in large 

 numbers, but from what cause could not be ascertained. 



