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Mr. J. M. Swaine ; " Insect Migration at Aweme, Man.," by Mr. Norman Criddle ; 

 " The Catalogue of Canadian Insects," by Dr. Hewitt ; " Some Notes on Hepialus 

 hyperborens," by Mr, Horace Dawson ; " Blister Beetles " and " The Entomological 

 Record for 1911," by Mr. A. Gibson. 



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

 issued regularly each month. The forty- third volume was completed in December 

 last; it consisted of 429 pages, and was illustrated by four full-page plates and many 

 original drawings. The contributors numbered 59, and included writers in Ontario, 

 Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, Australia, many States of the Union, and the Hawaiian 

 Islands. 



Meetings of the Society were held during the winter months of 1911 and 1912 

 iji the Biological Lecture Eoom of the Ontario Agricultural College. Before Christ- 

 mas the meetings were held on alternate Thursday afternoons, and after New Year's 

 joint meetings were held with the Wellington Field Naturalists' Club, weekly. The 

 meetings were well attended by the staff and students of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College and interested citizens of Guelph. The first meeting was devoted to observa- 

 tions by the various members, and during the rest of the season the following papers 

 were read in order : — 



" Observations in Algonquin Park," Prof. J. E. Howitt. 



" Foul Broods of Bee's," Mr. G. L. Jarvis. 



" The Nursery Question," Mr. L. Cassar. 



" Mosquitoes," Mr. C. A. Good. 



" The Economic Importance of Calosoma sycophanta," Mr. J. Noble. 



" Insect Intruders in Indian Homes," Mr. G. J. Spencer. 



" Birds in Relation to Insects," Mr. E. N. Calvert. 



" Fall Collecting of Coleoptera," Mr. A. W. Baker. 



"■ Insectivorous Birds," Professor T. D. Jarvis. 



The reports of the Branches of the Society at Montreal and Toronto give 

 evidence of much active work, meetings having been regularly held, and many papers 

 read and discussed. It is with great satisfaction that the Council reports the renewal 

 of activity of the British Columbia Branch, which has already outnumbered the 

 other branches in the list of members, and is doing much valuable work. 



The Council has to record with sorrow the death of one of America's foremost 

 entomologists. Dr. J. B. Smitli, who died of Bright's disease, on March 12th, 1912. 

 Besides a number of important monographic works on various families of Lepidop- 

 tera, particularly the Nocuida?, Dr. Smith was the author of several very excellent 

 popular treatises on Economic Entomology, in which subject few men were his 

 equal. His contributions to the Annual Reports of the New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and his many economic bulletins are of the greatest value, and 

 he is also widely known for his masterly work on the control of mosquitoes. He 

 was an Honorary Member of the Entomological Society of Ontario and of many 

 other learned societies, which have thus recognized the eminence of his scientific 

 attainments. 



It is also with profound regret that the Council has to record the loss of one of 

 our Society's most active and enthusiastic members, the Reverend G. W. Taylor, 

 who died of paralysis at Nanaimo, B.C., on August 22nd, 1912. Mr. Taylor was 

 widely known for his work in Marine Zoology, in recognition of which the Dominion 

 Government in 1905 appointed him a member of the Dominion Fisheries Commis- 

 sion for British Columbia. He was no less eminent in Entomology, as a student of 

 the Geometridse, and was a frequent contributor to the pages of the Canadian Ento- 



