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In the evening a large meeting was held in the Massey Hall auditorium, at 

 which there was a good attendance of students and representatives of the College'^ 

 staff as well as of the members of the Society. The chair was taken by Mr. C. C. 

 James, Deputy Minister of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Prof. James 

 G. Needham, of Cornell University, Ithaca, jST.Y., gave an address, illustrated with 

 many beautiful lantern views, on " The Eole of Insects in Water Life." 



The Society met both morning and afternoon of the following day, when a 

 variety of papers were read and discussed. Officers for the ensuing year were 

 elected, and the Treasurer presented his financial statement. Many specimens of 

 great interest and rarity were exhibited by members. The following are the papers 

 that were read : " Beetles found about Foliage," by Mr. F. J. A. Morris ; " The 

 Pool," by Eev. T. W. Fyles; "The Bean Maggot in Ontario in 1910," by Prof. 

 J. E. Howitt; "The FCorse-Eadish Flea Beetle," by Mr. A. F. Winn; "The 

 Migration of Some Native Locusts," by Mr. Norman Criddle ; " The Practical 

 Importance of the Study of Parasitic Insects," by Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt ; " The 

 Coccidae of Canada," and " Aleyrodidae of Ontario," by Prof. T. D. Jarvis ; 

 " Some Insects of the Larch/' and " Insect Notes from St. Anne's," by Prof. J. 

 M. Swaine ; " Basswood or Linden Insects," and " The Entomological Eecord for 

 1910," by Mr. Arthur Gibson. 



The Canadian Entomologist, the monthly magazine of the Society, has been 

 regularly issued at the beginning of each month. The forty-second volume was 

 completed in December last; it consisted of 413 pages, and was illustrated with 

 8 full-page plates and a number of original drawings. The contributors numbered 

 67, and included writers in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta, 

 England, many States of the Union, and the Hawaiian Islands. 



Meetings of the Society were held during the winter months at the Ontario 

 Agricultural College on alternate Wednesday afternoons. The attendance included 

 several of the more advanced students and much interest was taken in the papers 

 and discussions. The following subjects were taken up during the course of the 

 meetings : 



" Aphids," by Mr. A. C. Baker ; " Equipment for a Collecting Tour in Europe/* 

 by Prof. T. D. Jarvis ; " Position of the Mallophaga amongst Insects/' by Mr. A. 

 W. Baker; " Sources of our worst insect pests and methods of their distribution," 

 by Mr. L. Caesar; "Woolly Aphids of Ontario," by Mr. Vernon King; "The 

 Saw Flies of Ontario/' by Mr. W. A. Eoss. 



The Council takes pleasure in reporting that the preliminary arrangements 

 for the preparation of a new Catalogue of Canadian Insects have been successfully 

 concluded. The initial steps towards this undertaking were taken at a meeting 

 held on November 4, 1910, and a committee was appointed to take charge of the 

 work of its preparation. The question of publication was taken up by Dr. Hewitt 

 with the Geological Survey and Mr. Brock, with the result that they have consented 

 to publish the list in parts as desired by the committee. Some of these parts are 

 now in the course of preparation. 



The members of the council have learned with pleasure of the improved state 

 of health of their esteemed member, the Eev. George W. Taylor, and sincerely 

 hope that he will so continue to improve as to be able again to take up entomo- 

 logical work in the order in which he has earned such a widespread reputation as 

 a student of the Geometridae. 



