36 REPORT OF No. 19 



REPORT OF THE GUELPH BRANCH. 



On the occasion of the forty-second annual meeting of the Ontario Ento- 

 mological Society, held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on 

 October 18th and 19th, 1905, action was taken which resulted in the forma- 

 tion of a Guelph Branch of the Society. 



This new Branch was organized with the following oflEicers : 



President — Franklin Sherman. 



Vice-President — Richard Readwin. 



Secretary-Treasurer — T. D. Jarvis. * 



Committee — Messrs. Sherman, Jarvis and C. R. Klinck. 



An encouraging membership of 27 was secured, and the wisdom of the 

 step was shown. The beginning augured well for live and enthusiastic work, 

 and the most sanguine hopes have been fully realized. 



During the year sixteen meetings have been held at fortnightly periods, 

 alternating with those of the Wellington Field Naturalists' Club. The at- 

 tendance averaged thirty and included visitors from the Nature Study classes 

 of Macdonald Institute, and teachers and others from the city of Guelph. 



At each meeting talks and papers were presented, which were occasion- 

 ally illustrated with lantern views. Their nature will be indicated by the 

 following classification which appears on the printed invitations sent out : 



General Entomology. 



Entomological Literature. 



Economic Entomology. 



Observations and Notes by Members. 



At the conclusion of this one year's work the Branch was merged with 

 the parent society whose headquarters are now at this place. 



Tennyson D. Jahvis, 



Secretary-Treasurer. 



REPORT TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



From the Entomological Society of Ontario, through Mr. A. F. Winn, 



Delegate. 



As Delegate from the Entomological Society of Ontario, it is my pleas- 

 ing duty to report another year of steady progress, and that our membership 

 is increasing very rapidly. At your last meeting the establishment of a 

 branch in British Columbia was mentioned, and since then another had been 

 formed in Guelph, Ont., where there are a number of active and enthusiastic 

 entomologists. 



The parent society in London, with its branches at Quebec, Montreal, 

 Toronto, Guelph and Vancouver, and active members in every Province of 

 the Dominion, is able to accomplish niuch that would be impossible if the 

 sphere of work were limited to a more restricted area. 



The last volume. No. 38, of our monthly magazine. The Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, contains 426 pages — a contrast with the first modest one of 110 pages 

 — and is illustrated with twenty-nine figures in the text from original draw- 

 ings, and seven full page plates, one of the latter being a three-color process 

 plate of moths, showing the beauty as well as scientific accuracy of this style 

 of illustration. Among the sixty-two contributors to its pages, some are 

 from such distant places as Jamaica, W.I.; Honolulu, and the Philippine 



