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by fences festooned with grapevine and smothered in dogrose, everywhere a riot 

 of blossom and insect life. Nature transfigured with the glory of the July sun, 

 we thought of the wonderful interdependence of all living things on earth, and 

 felt — I hope I may say it without irreverance— that it was good to be there. 



" Such life there, through such lengths of hours. 

 Such miracles perfonned in play, 

 Such primal naked forms of flowers. 

 Such letting Nature have her way, 

 1 While Heaven looks from its towers!" 



EVENING SESSION.— THUESDAY, NOVEMBEE 4. 



At 8 o'clock p.m., a public meeting was held in the Massey Hall auditorium, 

 which was well filled with students, both male and female, and a number of visi- 

 tors from the town as well as members of the Society. The chair was taken by 

 Dr. Bethune, Professor of Entomology. The proceedings were much enlivened 

 by musical selections excellently rendered by the College Orchestra under the direc- 

 tion of Mr. J. D. Tothill, fourth year student in Biology, and a piano solo by Mr. 

 Eoy Eraser, another student in the same department. 



After a few remarks by the Chairman on the origin and progress of the Society 

 which was celebrating its forty-sixth anniversary and the near approach of its 

 .jubilee, he introduced the speaker of the evening. Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, the newly 

 appointed Dominion Entomologist, who was taking up the work at the Experi- 

 mental Farms so long and so ably conducted by their lamented friend, the late Dr. 

 James Fletcher. It was a great pleasure to welcome Dr. Hewitt to Canada, and 

 to have his kindly assistance during the proceedings of the annual meeting of the 

 Entomological Society. 



HOUSE-FLIES AND THEIE ALLIES. 



Being the major portion of a lecture delivered before the Entomological Society of 



Ontario, on November 4th, 1909, by C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc, F.E.S., 



Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa. 



It is an especial pleasure to me to have this opportunity which the Entomol- 

 ogists of Canada, in inviting me to give this address, have afforded me, of address- 

 ing my first remarks in public in Canada to the Entomological Society and the 

 students of the Ontario Agricultural College and the Macdonald Institute. It is, 

 in a sense, my official introduction to you, and the cordial reception which I have 

 been accorded on all sides, and especially during the meeting, have been most 

 encouraging, and I can only say in reply to it all that while, I have the honour to 

 be Dominion Entomologist it will be ever my object to further the science of 

 entomology, especially Canadian entomology, and by the application of the results 

 of scientific research to deal with those varied problems, both great and small, 

 which confront the entomologist when dealing with injurious insects and their 

 control. 



The subject of my address this evening is one that is familiar to you all. In 

 Canada I find you know the house-fly only too well. It is man's most constant com- 



