THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Forty-first Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 was held in London, on Wednesday and Thursday, October 26 and 27, 1904. 

 The chair was taken by Professor Wm. Lochhead, of the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College, Guelph, President. Among the members present were Dr. 

 James Fletcher and Mr. Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental Farm, Ot- 

 tawa; Mr. H. H. Lyman, Montreal; Mr. C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge; 

 Mr. J. D. Evans, Trenton; Mr. J. B. Williams, Toronto; Mr. G. E. Fisher, 

 Burlington; Rev. Dr. Bethune, Dr. Woolverton, Profs. Dearness and Bow- 

 man, Principal Merchant, Messrs. Balkwill, Bock, Law, McCready, Saund- 

 ers, Thompson, Westland and others, London; Miss Dunlop, Woodstock. 

 The Society was also favored with the presence of Prof. H. F. Wickham, of 

 the University of Iowa, Honorary Member of the Society; Mr. T. N. Will- 

 ing, Government Inspector of Weeds and Insects in the Northwest Terri- 

 tories, Regina; and Prof. Creelman, President of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College. 



During the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 26th, a meeting of the Council 

 was held. The Treasurer's report was discussed and gratification was ex- 

 pressed at the improvement in the Society's financial position as a result of 

 the economies put in practice last year. Various matters of business were 

 brought forward and discussed, and after the preparation of its annual re- 

 port the Council adjourned. 



In the afternoon the Society met at 2.30 o'clock. Prof. Lochhead, the 

 President, on taking the chair, congratulated the Society on the large and 

 comfortable room in the London Public Library building, in which they 

 were assembled, and into which their library and collections had recently 

 been removed. The improved quarters and greater accessibility would, he 

 felt sure, increase very much the popularity of the Society and add to its 

 usefulness. He then paid a tribute to the memory of the late Mr. John 

 Alston Moffat, the curator and librarian for many years, who died at the 

 end of February last. "We all," he said, "missed his kindly face and gen- 

 tle courtesy. He did much good work for the Society and in entomology, 

 but at the ripe age of nearly eighty years, we -could not have expected a 

 longer maintenance of the industry and activity that characterized his earlier 

 days." The Society was fortunate in having Dr. Bethune to fill the vacant 

 place. The reports of the Directors on the insects of the season in their re- 

 spective Divisions were then called for by the Chairman. 



REPORTS ON INSECTS OF THE TEAR. 



Division No. 1 — Ottawa District. By C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge. 



I am glad to be able to report that there have been no serious outbreaks of 

 any injurious insects during the season of 1904, in the Ottawa district. The 

 whole season has been a remarkable one for the absence of insects of all kinds. 

 In the eight years, during which I have resided near Ottawa and collected 

 insects, I have never in any season seen so few. This no doubt was due in 

 a large measure to the unfavorable weather which prevailed, the nights par- 

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