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work was as good as any in the United States. We can say that it is better than anything 

 that has been done hitherto, and more than that, it is far more extensive than anything that 

 has ever been done in the United States During the last four years Mr. Fisher has been 

 working continuously throughout the summer. The best work done in the United States has 

 teen done by an Entomologist who has a class to teach and other work to do, whereas, Mr. 

 Fisher has given his whole attention to the work and we have these good results. 



If a thing is worth doing and it will pay to do it, our farmers will do it. Seventeen years 

 •ago there was not a spraying machine in Canada, and now there are more than a million, 

 because the people have been shown that it pays to use them. And so it will be with the 

 treatment for the San Jose scale. 



Dr. Fletcher then moved, seconded by Dr. Bethune, " that the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario have watched carefully the efforts of the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture and his 

 Officers to discover a practical remedy for the San .1 ose scale ever since its first appearance in 

 Canada, and the Society now feel that they can justly, and they do hereby, tender their con- 

 gratulations to the Minister for the excellent results which have been obtained through the 

 discovery of a practical remedy for this most destructive insect." — Carried unanimously. 



The Chairman : It is very great gratification I am sure to us all that a member of our 

 Society, and one of its Directors should have accomplished the very good work that he has 

 done ; we also feel that an immense deal of credit is due to the Minister of Agriculture for the 

 thorough way in which he has caused these investigatiims and experiments to be conducted in 

 the face of a great deal of opposition. We feel grateful to him for what he has done, and also 

 to his officers for their excellent work. 



EVENING MEETING. 



A public meeting of the Society, to which the members of the London Horticultural 

 Society were specially invited, was held on Wednesday evening, October 29ths in a lecture 

 room of the Normal School, by kind permission of Principal Merchant. At 8 o'clock the 

 meeting was called to order by the President, the Rev. Dr. Fyles, who said : 



Ladies and gentlemen we are happy to meet you again to talk of the beautiful objects in 

 which the Society is interested, and to tell you of some facts concerning them. I beg to re- 

 quest Prof. James to take the chair this evening. 



Prcf. James : Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I accept very readily and very will- 

 ingly the invitation of the Entomological Society to occupy the chair on this occasion ; partly 

 because of the high appreciation I hold of their work, and partly also because we of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture who are more intimately related to that work, get from them so much 

 assistance in connection with our own work. We have been holding a session this afternoon, 

 and have been discussing two questions in particular. They are of very great moment to the 

 people of this Province. We have been discussing very small things indeed. Things so small 

 that in order to be detected, in some cases at least, they must be put under a powerful micro- 

 scope. These small things mean a great deal in connection with the development of this 

 country ; they are the Scale insect that affects our fruit trees and the Weevil that destroys our 

 pea crop. If the Society had done nothing else in connection with their meeting, but to pre- 

 pare for publication the information that will be collected, then they will not have met in vain. 



It is not many years since Entomology was looked down upon. It is only within the last 

 few years that it has received that attention which it deserves, and I am afraid that even yet 

 Entomology in most of its departments is not receiving the recognition it fully deserves. We 



