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Prof. Jamks : Ladies and gentlemen, we always kK>k for a paper of much iutt-rest from 

 Dr. Fvles, and he has kept up the good i"eputation he has already achieved in this Society by 

 his paper this evening T have always taken a gi-eat interest in the Society and never fail to 

 rtiad anything tlio Doctor has written. I remember some years ago reading some reminiscences 

 of the life of Philip H. Gosse, a celebrated entomologist who lived in that part of Canada from 

 which the Doctor comes. I consider his paper on the insects of the l>ible one of the most 

 instructive papers I have ever read ; and others upon the insects of Shakespeare and of our 

 modern poets most interesting and attractive. The Doctor is always able tv add a literary 

 tinish to his work i>n entomology. He tells us to-night in one place that natural history is full 

 of surprises, and this reminds me of a little incident I read in a New Yotk paper. Coo|>er, the 

 novelist, in one t>f his stories des.ribed a young man driving along the ivad who came to a 

 house, puUeil uj) his horse, jumped down from the rig and tied his horse to a locust. 'Vhe sup- 

 position is, of course, that a locust tree was meant, when, however, the Fi-ench translator 

 came to this passage he evidently was stuck by the woiii "locust." Fie turnetl to his diction- 

 ary and found only one meajiiug, and that was the locust or grasshopper {SanteralU'). and he 

 uiakes Cooper's young man tie his hi>r3e to a grasshopper I This rather staggered the trans- 

 lator, and he thought it necessary to add a foot-tjote, which itin as follows : " In America the 

 grasshopper grows to a very large size, so they stutl" them and aild a few weights to hold theu» 

 down and place them in front i>f their himses to use them as tie-i)0st3" ! The natural history 

 of America certainly is full of surprises. 



SOME COMMON Bl TTERFLlI S, AND SOME NOTED lU'TTERFLY HUNTERS. 

 By \Vm. Lt>ruub:vi>, ().\tvuio Aoku'Ii.tirai. Collkok, OtKH'H. 



The younger students of insects, and those of us whi> are actively engageil in the warfare 

 against injurious insects, can hardly realize the conditioi^a under which the older entoiaologiats 

 worked ; atul T make luild to say that we will never know how much we owe to them. \N'e are 

 indeed fortunate in our day and general ii>n. We have ready access to large collections correctly 

 named and arranged through no effort of ours. We have scores of splendidly illustrated 

 volumes, each of which can be bought for a trifle and placed on the shelves of our own library. 

 We have numbers of specialists who can help ua out of the matiy small ditlioulties which often 

 arise. All of these privileges were denied to the workers of a generation ago, anil we marvel at 

 the amount of good woik done under obstacles which would now bo tonned weU nigh 

 insurmountable. 



It is my purpose this evening to tell you stunething about -some of our great collectors, 

 including some of those atout-learted men who worked utuemittingly without hope of nnmey 

 reward, and more t han t hat , withi>ut the sympathetic encouragement ofthe people whotu they were 

 trying to help. They were looked upon as harmless "bug-hunters", ai\d they were alU>wed to 

 live, because the couununity believed that it took all kinds of people to make a world. But 

 times have changed. Entonmlogista are now looked upon as persona who are doing a necessary 

 and a valuable work for the ooimtry. Clovernments spend juoney o>» their support, College 

 chairs are endowed that students may receive instruction in bjutiunology, people are beginning 

 to clamor for a l)etter knowledge of insect-life, and the parents of school chihlren are demanding 

 the introduction of Nature Study into our schools. 



I wish to state at the outset that Entomology knows no national boundaries, for the 

 entomologists of all countries form one grand brotherhood of wiukers. Naturally, then, I shall 

 not contine my remarks to our Canadian banil. I shall introduce to you many co workers from 

 the United States, co-workers whom we always delight to homu', for to them we owe much. 



