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SECOND DAY'S SESSION— FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 1908. 



The Yice-President, Mr. Tennyson D. Jarvis, took the chair^ at 9,30 

 o'clock a.m. in the Biological lecture-room of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College. There was a gopd attendance throughout the day, composed of 

 students as well as members of the Society, The first order of the day was 

 the reading of the reports of the Council, the Branches of the Society at 

 Montreal by Mr. H. H. Lyman, Quebec by Rev. Dr. Fyles, and Toronto by 

 Mr, J, B. Williams. The reports of the Treasurer, Librarian and Curator 

 were presented by the respective officers, and that of the Delegate to the 

 Royal Society by Mr. Arthur Gibson of Ottawa. This was followed by the 

 election of officers for the ensuing year, 1908-9 (see page 6). Dr, Fletcher 

 was unanimously re-elected President, and Mr. T. D. Jarvis and Dr. E. M. 

 Walker, of Toronto, first and second Vice-President respectively; the latter 

 appointment was made in view of the fear that Dr. Fletcher might be 

 incapacitated from accepting any office. This apprehension proved 

 unhappily to be well-grounded; our reverend and beloved friend died two 

 days later — an account of his life and fatal illness will be found in another 

 part of this report. At a subsequent meeting of the Society held on Novem- 

 ber the 18th, Mr. Jarvis was elected President and Dr. Walker, Vice- 

 President. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario begs to present the 

 report for 1907-8. 



The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Society was held at the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph, on October 31st and November 1st. Many 

 members from a distance, almost all of the local members and a considerable 

 number of interested outsiders, including many of the students of the 

 College, were present. 



The first afternoon was devoted to a conference on Fruit-tree Insects. 

 The chief insects discussed were the Fruit-tree Bark Beetle or Shot-hole 

 Borer, which had been doing much damage to Cherry trees in the Niagara 

 district during the season. Codling Worm, Oyster-shell, Terrapin and San 

 Jose scales, and the Woolly Aphis. This discussion was followed by the 

 "Reports on Insects of the Year" by the directors from their respective 

 divisions of Ontario. In the evening the president. Dr. Fletcher, delivered 

 his inaugural address entitled "The Entomological Outlook." This was 

 followed by a very interesting and instructive illustrated lecture by Mr. A. 

 H. Kirkland of Boston, Mass., on "The Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths in 

 Massachusetts." The morning and evening of the second day were occupied 

 with the reading of reports from the branches and officers of the Society and 

 a series of scientific and practical papers on various subjects. In the even- 

 ing session Dr. E. M. Walker of Toronto University gave an illustrated 

 lecture on "Collecting and Rearing Dragon Flies at the Georgian Bay 

 Biological Station." All of these papers and addresses have been published 

 in the annual volume. 



This volume, the 38th Annual Report to the Legislature of Ontario, was 

 published early in March, and contained 136 pages, and four excellent 

 half-tone plates of Galls from a variety of plants. Besides the papers 



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