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"The Tussock Moths," by Dr. Fyles and Mr. H. H. Lyman; "The Phlox 

 Mite; the Blue Spruce Fly, and, On Bumble Bees that Fertilize the Red 

 Clover," by Mr. T. D. Jarvis; "Forest Insects," by Rev. Dr. Fyles and Mr. 

 E. J. Zavitz; "The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist," by Rev. Dr. Fyles; "Butterfly Collecting in Canada," by Mrs. 

 Nicholl; "Orthoptera and Odonata from Algonquin Park," by Dr. E. M. 

 Walker; "Insects as Nature Studies," by Prof. S. B. McCready; "Injurious 

 Insects of the Flower Garden," by Mr. Arthur Gibson. 



The library now consists of over eighteen hundred volumes, and a card 

 catalogue according to subjects has been begun. The collections at London 

 are open to the public three days a week, and advantage is taken of this 

 opportunity, the number of visitors being increasing. 



The branches are all in a satisfactory state, and our friends in British 

 Columbia have decided to issue a quarterly "Bulletin," the first number of 

 which has just appeared, and contains much information on the insects of 

 British Columbia, particularly on the Coleoptera. It was felt that, as the 

 members in that Province are so widely scattered, a medium of communica- 

 tion would bind them together, and we should like to see the members in 

 the Maritime Provinces and also in the North- West follow a similar course, 

 so that our Society could have a chain of branches from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR. 



During the year ending August 31st, 1906, thirty-eight bound volumes 

 have been added to the Library, making the total number on the register 

 1900, also a large number of periodicals and pamphlets. Among the new 

 books may be mentioned the Autobiography of the late Miss Eleanor Ormerod, 

 LL.D. ; Mr. A. G. Weeks's Illustrations of South American Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera; the second part of Prof, Packard's Monograph of the Bombycine 

 Moths; Mr. W. G. Wright's Butterflies of the West Coast of the United 

 States; and Prof. Needham's May-flies and Midges of New York. During 

 the year 38 volumes were issued to local members.- 



Owing to his appointment to the Professorship of Entomology at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, which took place on the 1st of June, the Lib- 

 rarian and Curator was absent* from London during the last quarter of the 

 Society's year. There are, therefore, few acquisitions to the collections to 

 be recorded for this season, and the attendance of visitors during the summer 

 months was almost entirely precluded. The following contributions have 

 been made to the collections since our last report, and our grateful thanks 

 are due to the kind contributors: 35 specimens of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera 

 and Hymenoptera, by Dr. James Fletcher, Ottawa; 23 specimens of Lepi- 

 doptera by Mr. H. S. Saunders, Toronto; 118 specimens, representing 63 

 species of Manitoba Coleoptera, by Mr. Norman Criddle, Aweme, Man. ; 22 

 specimens of Coleoptera, by Dr. A. H. R. Watson, Port Hope; 6 specimens 

 of Coleoptera, by Mr. A. C. Baker, London, and a number of interesting 

 specimens of various orders by Mr, J, A. Balkwill, London. 



The removal of the Society's books and cabinets and other property from 

 London to Guelph has been safely accomplished without any appreciable 

 injury to the specimens, and all are now placed in their new quarters in the 

 Massey Hall Library and the Biological Building at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Charles J. S. Bethune, 



Librarian and Curator. 



