The Entomological Society of Ontario. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The forty-seventh annual meeting of the Society was held at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph, on Thursday and Friday, November 3rd and 4th. Pro- 

 fessor Tennyson D. Jarvis, President of the Society, occupied the chair during the 

 day meetings, and at the evening session the mxeeting was presided over by Mr. C. C. 

 James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario. 



Amongst those present were Mr, H. H. Lyman, Montreal; Dr. C. G. Hewitt, 

 Mr. Arthur Gibson and Mr. Groh, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa; Prof. 

 Swaine, Macdonald College, St. Anne's, P.Q. ; Mr. John D. Evans and Miss Evans, 

 Trenton; Mr. F. J. A. Morris, Trinity College School, Port Hope; Dr. E. M. 

 Walker and Messrs. C. W. Nash, J. B. Williams and A. Gummer, Toronto; Prof. 

 Needham, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. ; President Creelman, Professors C. A. 

 Zavitz, W. H. Day, S. P. Edwards, E. J. Zavitz, C. J. S. Bethune, Messrs. J. E. 

 Howitt, J. W. Eastham, L. Csesar, D. H. Jones, Morley Pettit, of the staff; and a 

 number of the students of the Ontario Agricultural College. 



Letters expressing regret at their inability to attend were received from Dr. 

 William Saunders, Director of the Dominion Experimental Farms, Ottawa; the 

 Eev. Dr. Fyles, Hull, P.Q.; Prof. Wm. Lochhead, Macdonald College, P.Q.; Messrs. 

 E. C. Treherne and G. E. Sanders, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa; Messrs. 

 A. P. Winn and G. Chagnon, Montreal ; Dr. Watson, Port Hope ; Mr. C. E. Grant, 

 Orillia; Mr. A. Cosens and Miss Brodie, Toronto; Mr. E. S. Hamilton, Gait; and 

 Prof. J. Dearness, London. 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held, at which the report 

 of the proceedings during the past year was drawn up, and several questions con- 

 cerning the welfare of the Society were discussed. Amongst others was the con- 

 sideration of a proposal to hold the next annual meeting at either Macdonald Col- 

 lege, P.Q., or the Experimental Farm at Ottawa. This was referred to the Execu- 

 tive Committee for further action. Dr. Bethune was elected a Life Member, in 

 " recognition of his services to the Society since its inception 47 years ago. 



In the afternoon the proceedings began with the reading of reports by the 

 Directors on the insects observed in their respective districts during the past season. 

 No report was furnished by Mr. C. W. Nash, Director for District No. 4, East 

 Toronto. 



REPOETS ON INSECTS OF THE YEAR 



Division No. 1, Ottawa Disteict — Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental 



Farm, Ottawa. 



Throughout the Ottawa district, injurious insects were remarkably abundant 

 during the season of 1910. Most of the regularly-occurring pests were present in 

 greater numbers than usual. The season, on the whole, was much drier than that 

 of 1909, the rainfall being below the average; July and August were particularly 

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