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liams; Collecting in February by Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno; the capture 

 of JEgialites dehilis in British Columbia by the Rev. J. H. Keen. 



Among the miscellaneous papers may be mentioned a House-boat col- 

 lecting trip in China by Mr. C. L. Marlatt; a Coleopterous Conundrum 

 by Mrs. A. T. vSlosson; a Migration of Butterflies in Yenezeula by Mr. A. 

 H. Clark; the habits of Ranatra fu!<ca by Mr. Bueno; the Spinning methods 

 of Polyphemus by Mr. J. W. Cockle; papers on Coleoptera by Prof. Wick- 

 ham, on Bees by Prof. Cockerell and Entomological notes by Mr. H. H. 

 Lyman. There are also several reviews of new books by the editor and 

 others. 



The thirty-fourth annual report of the Society was published by the 

 Ontario Department of Ag-riculture in March last. Its distribution has 

 unfortunately been very much limited owing to the destruction of 5,000 

 copies by the disastrous fire in Toronto on the 19th of April. The volume 

 consists of 116 pages illustrated with a portrait of the Rev. G. W. Taylor, 

 four half tone plates of orchards affected by the San Jose Scale and sixty 

 figures in the text; all of the blocks of these illustrations have also been 

 lost in the fire. 



The volume contains satisfactory reports from the Officers of the 

 Society, the Sections in Botany, Microscopy and Ornithology, the Branches 

 at Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, and from the Directors, Messrs. Young, 

 Grant and Balkwill, on Insects of the year. Further notes on the season 

 of 1903 are given by Messrs. Stevenson and Kilman, and extended reports 

 by Dr. Fletcher and Prof. Lochhead. The latter, in his annual address 

 as President, gave an interesting account of the "Progress of Economic 

 Entomology in Ontario", and furnished further papers on "The Present 

 Condition of the San Jose Scale in Ontario", and "A Key to the Insects 

 Affecting Small Fruits". Dr. Fletcher contributed his very valuable 

 "Entomological Record for 1903"; Mr. Arthur Gibson, papers on "The 

 Insects Affecting Basswood", and "An Interesting Enemy of the Iris"; 

 Dr. Bethune on "A Menace to the Shade-trees of London, Ontario", the 

 Great Leopard Moth, and a memoir of the late Professor Grote; Dr. 

 Fyles on "The Food-habits of Hymenopterous Larvse" ;Mr. Jarvis on "Fly- 

 tormentors of New Ontario", and a list of injurious insects taken in the 

 Abitibi Region; Mr. A. J. Dennis" on a remarkable experience in collec- 

 ing moths at light in Manitoba. Dr. S. H. Scudder gives an interesting' 

 account of his "Hunting for Fossil Insects" in Wyoming and Colorado; 

 and the late Mr. Moffat furnished a paper on his "Recollections of the 

 past". Dr. L. 0. Howard, United States Entomologist, was a welcome 

 visitor at the annual meeting and gave two most interesting addresses, of 

 which abstracts are given in the report, on "The Transmission of Yellow 

 Fever by Mosquitoes", and the warfare that is being waged against the 

 Cotton Boll Weevil in Texas. 



It is with profound regret that we place on record the death of Mr. 

 John Alston Moffat, which took place in London on the 26th of February. 

 For fourteen years he had been the efficient Librarian and Curator of the 

 Society and had endeared himself to all who frequented the rooms by his 

 uniform kindness and courtesy. 



