1900] ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 15 



The thirtieth Annual Report on economic and general Entomology was presented to 

 the Minister of Agriculture for Ontario in December last and was printed and distributed 

 in the following March. lb contained 127 pages and was illustrated with sixty-six wood 

 cuts and two plates, one a portrait of Mr. Henry H. Lyman the retiring President, the 

 other exhibiting the structure of a butterfly's wing. Besides the account of the confer- 

 ence on the San Josd Scale and the proceedings at the Annual Meeting, it contained 

 among many useful papers, the President's address by Mr. Lyman ; " One hundred years 

 of American Entomology " and " The home of the San Jose Scale " by Prof. F. M. Web- 

 ster ; papers by Prof. Lochhead, Mr. Arthur Gibson, Mr. J. A. Moffat, Dr. Bethune, 

 Mr. W. N. Hutt, Dr. Fyles, and articles on the most notable and injurious insects of 

 the year by Dr. Fletcher, Messrs. Harrington, Evans, Moffat, Gibson and Drs. Fyles and 

 Bethune. An addition of much interest was the report of the proceedings at the 

 first annual meeting of the North- West (Canada) Entomological Society, held at Lacombe, 

 Alberta, in November lb99. 



The Canadian Entomologist has been regularly issued at the beginning of each 

 month. The 31st volume was completed in December last ; it consisted of 377 pages, 

 illustrated with 36 wood cuts and six plates. The contributors numbered no lees than 

 sixty, and included well-known writers in England, Germany, Finland, Brazil and Japan, 

 as well as in the United States and Canada. The thirty-second volume will be completed 

 next month ; the eleven numbers already issued contain 352 pages and many original 

 illustrations. 



An index to the thirty Annual Reports of the Society, 1870 to 1899, has been pre- 

 parf d by the Rev, Dr. Bethune and is now being printed under the direction of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture. It is expected to be ready for distribution before the end of 

 the year, and will, undoubtedly, be found of very great value by all who have occasion to 

 consult these Reports. 



Entomological meetings have been held regularly on Friday evenings, at first fort- 

 nightly, afterwards weekly, from October to June, and have now been resumed for the 

 autumn and winter seasons. The study of the Lepidoptera was taken up for several 

 months and when spring opened specimens freshly captured were brought for identifica- 

 tion and discussion. The order Coleoptera has been adopted for study during the ses- 

 sions that have now begun. 



The Council is glad to be able to report that the Ornithological Section has been re- 

 vived and has held regular monthly meetings for a year past ; at the same time it has to 

 express its regret that no meetings of the Botanical Section have been held this year. 

 The Geological Section has been as active as usual, holding weekly meetings on Tuesday 

 evenings throughout the greater part of the year, and the Microscopical Section has held 

 interesting meetings on alternate Friday evenings during the autumn and winter months. 



Many valuable and interesting additions have been made to the Library and Collec- 

 tions. The Council desires to bear its testimony to the great care taken by Mr. Moffat 

 in the preservation of the Society's books and specimens, and their neat and orderly 

 arrangement. Too much praise cannot be accorded to him for the zeal and interest that 

 he always displays in attending to the welfare of the Society and the good order of its 

 property. 



All of wh'ch is respectfully submitted. 



Thomas. W. Fyles, President. 



Report of the Librarian and Curator, for the year ending 31st op 



August, 1900. 



Thirty bound volumes of Government Reports, and proceedings and transactions of 

 societies were received during the year. Among them were twelve quarto volumes of the 

 United States Geological Survey, profusely illustrated, with a volume of maps accom- 

 panying them. 



Thirty-four volumes were bound and added to the library. Among these are some 

 volumes of the Bulletins of the Iowa University (a gift to the library by Rev. Dr. 

 Bethune) one of which is of special interest, being explorations in the Canadian Far North 

 in search of the Musk Ox, by Frank Russell. Also contributions from Drs. Fletcher 

 and Bethune of volumes of the Proceedings of the American Association for the Ad- 



