12 . THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 



EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



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

 Annual Report for the year 1903-1904. 



The fortieth Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 was held in Ottawa, on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of September, 1903. The day 

 meetings were held in the commodious and comfortable rooms of the Ottawa 

 Board of Trade which were kindly put at the disposal of the Society and for 

 the evening meetings the large Assembly Hall of the Normal School was 

 secured. 



The meetings throughout were fairly well attended both by members of 

 the Society and by citizens of Ottawa. Several members of the Montreal 

 and Toronto Branches were present and added greatly to the interest of the 

 meetings. 



The reports of the various Directors of Divisions showed that good work 

 had been done in differe^nt parts of the Province in observing injurious in- 

 sects and distributing information concerning remedial treatment. Most 

 of these reports were illustrated by specimens. The full report of the pro- 

 ce,edings and the discussions at the sessions has already been published and 

 distributed to the members of the Society. This was the Thirty-fourth An- 

 nual Report on practical and general entomology and was presented to the 

 Honorable the Minister of Agriculture for Ontario in December last and was 

 printed and distributed in March. 



It contains 116 pages and is illustrated with 59 wood cuts and 5 plates; 

 one of the Rev. G. W. Taylor, an active member of the Society for many 

 ^ years who has done excellent work in fostering the study of practical and 

 systematic entomology in British Columbia and was at one time the honorary 

 Provincial Entomologist. Four plates show the results of remedial treat- 

 ment for the San Jose Scale carried on under Prof. Lochhead, the President. 

 Besides the account of the annual meeting, the reports of Divisions and 

 Branches, the sections and officers at London, and the President's Annual Ad- 

 dress on "The Progress of Economic Entomology in Ontario," the volume 

 contains papers on the injurious insects of the year by Prof. Lochhead, Dr. 

 Fletcher, Messrs. C. Stevenson, A. H. Kilman and T. D. Jarvis; "The pre- 

 sent condition of the San Jose Scale in Ontario," and "A key to the insects 

 affecting the small fruits," by Prof. Lochhead; "The Entomological Record 

 for 1903," a most useful and important contribution by Dr. Fletcher; "A 

 menace to the Shade-Trees of London," and "The Great Leopard Moth," by 

 Dr. Bethune; "A card system for notes on Insects," by A. F. Winn; "The 

 Syrphidse of the Province of Quebec," by G. Chagnon; "An interesting 

 enemy of the Iris," and "Basswood, or Linden, Insects," by A. Gibson; 

 "The food-habits of Hymenopterous Insects," by Dr. Fyles; "Collecting at 

 Light in Manitoba," bv A. J. Dennis; "Fly-tormentors in New Ontario," 

 bv T. D. Jarvis; "Hunting for Fossil Insects," by Dr. S. H. Scudder; "Re- 

 collections of the past," by the late J. A. Moffat. There were also full re- 

 ports of Dr. L. 0. Howard's addresses on "The Transmission of Yellow Fever 

 by Mosquitoes," and the work beine: carried on by the Washington Division 

 of Entomologv against the Cotton Boll Weevil. The volume closes with a 

 biographical sketch of the Rev. G. W. Taylor and an obituary notice of the 

 late Prof. A. R. Grote, one of the honorary members of the Society. 



The Society regrets very much that the distribution of this Annual Re- 

 port was so greatlv curtailed owing to the destruction in the great Toronto hre 

 of April 19th, of 'no less than 5,000 conies, together with all the nlates and 

 engravings used in its illustration. These copies were to have been bound 



