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Mr. Walter Smith related his experience with bandages, and said that the main cause of 

 failure in their use is that people will not take the trouble to remove them regularly and then 

 they become excellent hiding places for the worms. 



Mr. Fisher found it a good plan to drive two nails into the tree and leave them there ; the 

 string of the bandages could be twisted around them and released when the bandages were 

 taken off in much less lime than was required for tying and untying. 



Mr. Balkwill spoke of the scarcity of clover seed ihis year, and wished to know whether 

 this could be attributed to the destruction of the crop by the clover-seed weevil {Phytoitomus 

 punctatiis) ; his own opinion was that the scanty supply of seed was due to the character of the 

 season. The weather had been continuously cold and wet, so that the blossoms did not open 

 and consequently the flowers were not fertilized. 



Dr. Fletcher said that he had found the weevil abundant in British Columbia this year. 

 Dr. Bethune stated that last year it was very numerous in London but this year he had not 

 seen a single specimen. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario begs to present its report for the 

 year 1901-2. 



The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Society was held in London in November, 1901, 

 and was well attended by members from a distance as well as those resident ni the city. It 

 was also favoured with the presence of the Hon. J. Dryden, Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, 

 and Mr. G. C. Creelman, Superintendent of the Farmers' Institutes of Ontario. During the 

 first afternoon a conference was held to discuss the progress, present aspect and future outlook 

 of the San Jose scale in Ontario. In the evening a public meeting was held in the Normal 

 School ; the chair was taken by the Hon. J. Dryden, who delivered the opening address. The 

 Rev Dr. Fyles then read his presidential address on " The Importance of Entomological 

 Studies to the Community at Large," and illustrated his remarks with beautiful coloured dia- 

 grams, the work of his own hand. Dr. Fletcher followed with an address on " The Value of 

 Nature Study in Education," and concluded with an exhibition of lantern slides of plants, 

 insects and other natural objects of interest. The following day was occupied with the reading 

 of papers and the reports of the officers, branches and sections of the Society. 



The thirty second Annual Report on eccmomic and general Ent jmology was presented to the 

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

 begnming of May. It contained 128 pages and was illustrated with three maps and fifty-eight 

 figures in the text, a photogravure portrait of the late Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod and a very 

 beautiful full-page plate of thirty- three varying specimens oi'^Hyphantria cunea kindly con- 

 tributed by Mr. Henry H. Lyman in illustration of his paper on "The North American Fall 

 Web-worms." Besides the account of the conference on the San Jose scale and the proceed- 

 ings at the annual meeting, the Report contained papers on the injurious insects of the year 

 by Messrs. Young, Evans, Johnston, Lochhead and Moffat; "The Painted Lady Butterfly" 

 and the "Entomological Record for 1901," a new feature which is to be continued annually, 

 by Dr. Fletcher ; "The trend of Insect diffusion in North America," the "Imported Willow 

 and Poplar Curculio," and " The Common Cheese-mite living in Sporotrichum globuliferum," 

 by Prof. F. M. Webster ; papers by Prof Lochhead on the "Hibernation of Insects " and 

 "Nature study Lessons on Mosquitoes"; by Mr. Moffat on " Anosia Archippus does not 

 Hibernate ' ; by Mr. Evans, on "Collec'ing at Light"; Mr. Winn, on captures made at 

 " The Milk-weed at Dusk" ; Mr. Walker, on " A Collecting Trip in South-Western Ontario" ; 

 Mr. Gibson, on "A Day at the Mer Bleue." Dr. Fyles contributed a paper on "Crickets," 



