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ledge of the science of Entomology. The work of the agricultural experts attached 

 to High Schools in several counties of Ontario, will give a great stimulus to the 

 study of Entomology. The office of the experts includes the teaching of the 

 science in the high school, the conducting of experiments in farmers' orchards and 

 elsewhere, giving advice on agricultural matters and establishing libraries in 

 each county which -will contain work largely devoted to Nature Study. Teachers 

 of high and public schools have taken up the subject with more or less success 

 and their work has been very prolific of good results. Another method, and one 

 which may in course of time be a most powerful one to increase the study of 

 entomology, is the three months' course at the Ontario Agricultural College for 

 Normal School students. Nearly two hundred students have during the past year 

 availed themselves of this opportunity, and the number promises to be largely 

 increased in future years. 



There is also the nursery and orchard inspection conducted through the 

 horticultural branch of the Department of Agriculture by wliioh an intimate know- 

 ledge of injurious forms of insects is obtained and remedies are applied to prevent 

 their increase and spread through infected fruit or stock. The Natural History 

 Societies, with their publications on Nature Study, their excursions, their periodical 

 meetings where eminent scientists are frequently invited to address the members, 

 and in many other ways, have made great strides forward in obtaining and dif- 

 fusing the knowledge of insects. Another attractive method for the enlightenment 

 of the farmer, nurseryman and others upon this subject of insects, is found in the 

 bulletins issued from time to time by experimental stations and agricultural col- 

 leges, by which the quintessence, as it were, of the subject is brought to easy view 

 within a few pages of reading matter. I must also acknowledge the good work of 

 the Farmer s Advocate, Canadian Horticulturist, and the WeeMi/ Fruitgroiuer for 

 their assistance in the diffusion of knowledge and the instruction of their readers. 

 These periodicals merit highly the splendid patronage accorded to them. 



From the position which I at present occupy I feel impelled to acknowledge 

 that a large share of the means of disseminating a knowledge of the workings of 

 our Society throughout the world is due to the Canadian Entomologist, our monthly 

 magazine edited by Dr. Bethune. This publication has long since attained a posi- 

 tion of celebrity in literary and scientific circles for the thorough information it 

 imparts and the high standard of excellence it has attained and achieved. 



The graduates from this College in the Department of Biology also deserve 

 to be mentioned as a potent factor in the gathering of facts and diffusing know- 

 ledge in this science. Their studious and untiring researches and investigations, 

 the zeal and energy with which they enter into their task, and the interchange of 

 ideas resulting from them have greatly assisted in attaining a thorough knowledge 

 of certain families of insects under all kinds of climatic conditions. 



We should not overlook the work of this College and of kindred institutions 

 in the diffusing of the J^nowledge of Entomology and the stimulus they impart to 

 research. Hundreds of students therein, undergraduates, are during the most 

 favourable season of the year engaged in the gathering of insects and in the study 

 of their life histories, their habits and their workings. 



A great deal is done for the spread of information regarding insects by the 

 professors at the Colleges where the science of Entomology forms part of the cur- 

 riculum, by correspondence with people of various pursuits making inquiries. 

 There have been many hundreds of such enquiries answered during the past year 

 by Dr. Bethune of this College, and his colleagues, and no doubt the same may be 

 said respecting the correspondence in other Colleges of a similar character. 



