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many others, ought to be familiar to all, so that they should not be wantonly trodden 

 under foot or otherwise df stroyed. Excellent figures of all those referred to were shewn 

 upon the screen, and a large number of our most prevalent insect pests, among others, the 

 cabbage-root maggot, the devastating and climbing cut-worms, the May beetle (white 

 grub), pea-weevil and pea-aphis, pear psylla, eye-spotted bud-moth, canker and palmer 

 worms, the cigar case-bearer, plum sphinx and curculio, grape-vine flea beetle, spruce gall- 

 louse, tent caterpillars, codling moth, San Josd scale, and the lovely Luna moth. Each 

 picture as it appeared was briefly described in the speaker's well-known graphic and often 

 humorous manner, and the interest and attention of the large audience were maintained 

 to the last. 



At \,he close of Dr. Fletcher's address, the following resolution was proposed by Dr. 

 Bethune, who spoke briefly in its support, and seconded by Principal Kirk ; on being put 

 to the meeting, it was unanimously adopted : 



" That this meeting of the Horticultural and Entomological Societies endorses the idea 

 that the control of the city's horticulture should be in the hands of men who have made 

 this science a study ; and that this meeting urges upon the City Council the advisability 

 of placing in the hands of a small committee of citizens the entire control of ^he shade 

 trees on the streets and in the parks of London, believing that in this way only can the best 

 results be accomplished ; and that the secretaries of the two societies are hereby instructed 

 to send copies of this resolution to the Mayor and the City Olerk early in January, 1901, 

 asking that it be brought before the Council at the earliest possible moment, and request- 

 ing that action be taken thereon." 



At the conclusion, votes of thanks were tendered to the ladies for the musical treat 

 that they had afforded ; Professor James and the other speakers for their interesting 

 addresses ; Professor Lochhead, for the loan of a number of slides ; and Principal Mer- 

 chant, for the use of the Lecture room and lantern, and the kind assistance that he and 

 Mr. Rennie had afforded. 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14th. 



The Council of the Entomological Society met at 10.30 a.m., for the transaction of 

 business and the preparation of their report on the proceedings of the past year. The 

 President occupied the chair, and the meeting continued in session till one o'clock. 



The Society met at 2.30 p.m. Among those present were the following: Rev. Dr; 

 Fyles, South Qaebec, President ; Prof. Lochhead, Ontario Agricultural College, Vice- 

 President ; Dr. James Fletcher and Mr. Arthur Gibson, Experimental Farm, Ottawa ; 

 Mr. Henry H. Lyman, Montreal ; Inspector G. E. Fisher, Freeman, Ont. ; Prof. F. M. 

 Webster, Wooster, Ohio; Revs. Provost Watkins, and Dr. Bethune, London; Drs. 

 Woolverton and Stevenson, and Messrs. J. A. Balkwill, J, H. Bowman, J. Dearness, H. 

 Gould, B. Green, C. J. Fox, W. Gammage, W. H. Hamilton, John Law, Heard, J. A. 

 Moffat, S. B. McCready, W. E. Saunders, R. W. Rennie, E. A. Brown, H. S. Saunders, 

 and many other residents of London. 



The President called upon the Directors and Officers of the Society, the representa- 

 tives of the Branches, and the chairmen of the Sections for their respective Reports on 

 the work of the past year. These were read and discussed, as follows : 



Report op the Council. 



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

 Report for the years 1899-1900. 



The thirty -sixih annual meeting was held in London in October 1899, and was well 

 attended by members from a distance as well as by those resident in the city. An inter- 

 esting and important addition to the ordinary proceedings was a conference held during 

 the first afternoon on the San Jof^ Scale and the operations that had been carried out for 

 Its suppression in the Province of Ontario. A full report of the discussion and of the 

 subsequent proceedings at the meeting has already been published ; it is therefore un- 

 necessary to enter into particulars. 



