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For some years past in several portions of tlie United States, notably 

 New York State and New Jersey, also in Cuba, a war of extermination bas 

 been declared against tbe Mosquitoes by draining marshes and pools and also 

 by covering stagnant water with a thin coating of petroleum, but now the 

 fight is being carried to our own shores, for quite recently Mr. Henry. C. 

 Weeks, Secretary of the American Society for the Extermination of the 

 Mosquito, has been invited to Toronto to discuss and. advise with those ia- 

 terested as to the best means of combatting the evil on Toronto Island. 



WHAT THE ONTARIO ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY CAN DO FOR 

 THE ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



By William Lochhead, Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de 

 Belle viJE, P.Q. 



The removal of the headquarters of the Ontario Entomological Society 

 to the Ontario Agricultural College is now an accomplished fact ; and whether 

 it was a wise move or not remains to be proven by the accomplishment of 

 better work. I must, however, congratulate the 0. A. C. on the new rela- 

 tionship, for I see many advantages that will come by the transfer to the 

 College, and especially to the Entomological Department. 



Eirst of all, the Entomological Society of Ontario has won a reputation 

 that is almost world wide; it is well and favorably known wherever insect 

 life is studied. Its publications are valued by every Entomological inves- 

 tigator of note, and the best workers of North America contribute regularly 

 to the pages of the Canadian Eiitojnologist. Eor 43 years our Society has 

 been in active existence, and the influence it has exerted during all these 

 years on the progress of Entomology and education along Nature-Study lines 

 in Canada has been very great and can scarcely be estimated. 



Eor 43 years Dr. Bethune has stuck to the ship, and under his careful 

 guidance the shoals and rocks and bars have been successfully passed. All 

 honor to the men who have been associated with him for many years, viz., 

 Dr. Saunders, Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Fyles, Mr. Lyman, Mr. Harrington and our 

 President, Mr. Evans, for their most valuable and voluntary assistance. 

 For 43 years the Ontario Entomological Society by means of its annual 

 reports and special popular lectures has been educating the rank and file 

 of the people into a knowledge of insect life. 



I believe, therefore, that the transfer to the 0. A. C. of the headquarters 

 of a Society such as ours, which has done so much for Entomology the world 

 over, will give an impetus to the study of insects at the College, and the 

 Entomological Department at the 0. A. C. will become better known on ac- 

 count of its intimate connection with the Entomological Society. 



Again, the Ontario Entomological Society has all along been known as 

 a great educational agency. It has taken the lead in educating the public 

 as to the life histories of the injurious insects and the best means of control- 

 ling these insects. It has also done much to foster the Nature-Study Move- 

 ment which means so much for the children. With its home at the centre 

 of the agricultural education of the Province the Entomological Society and 

 Entomological Department will be able to co-operate more effectively than 

 was possible in the past. I look for a great forward movement in educa- 

 tional lines under the new arrangement. 



