34 THE EEPOET OF THE No. 36 



EEVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY EELATING TO CANADA IN 1912. 



C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa. 



It has been my custom in addressing the Society on previous occasions to 

 briefly relate the more important developments which have taken place in connection 

 with the work of the Division of Entomology of the Experimental Farms Branch 

 of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, located at the Central Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa. 



This year we are fortunate in having with us at our meetings a number of the 

 field officers of the Division of Entomology who have been carrying on investiga- 

 tions in different localities, and they will be able personally to communicate to you 

 the results of their investigations. I wish to consider broadly, for a short time, 

 certain matters affecting Canadian entomology, which have arisen during the past 

 year. I shall, therefore, divide my address into three parts, and I shall consider 

 how our problems have been affected by International, Imperial and Canadian 

 developments. 



As representative of the Canadian Government 'and also as representative, 

 together with Mr. Henry H. Lyman, of this Society, I had the privilege of attend- 

 ing the International Congress of Entomology which was held at Oxford in August. 

 An account of this meeting has been published by me in the current (November) 

 issue of " The Canadian Entomologist," and therefore I need not take up the time 

 of the meeting with a description of the various interesting and important aspects 

 of this international meeting. 



I would like, however, to refer to two matters which came up for discussion at 

 the Congress, a<s I think they will be of special interest to the members of the 

 Society. As might be expected, the question of nomenclature was prominent in 

 discussion, having been introduced at the instigation of the Entomological Society 

 of London, and after an interesting and useful discussion it was finally decided to 

 appoint international and national committees to deal with this very vexed question 

 of nomenclature. Each of these national committees would refer its important 

 inquiries to the International Committee for its decision, and the International 

 Committee would consult with the International Committee on Zoological Nom- 

 enclature, which is the final committee of appeal on all questions of zoological 

 nomenclature. It was felt, and rightly so, that entomology was not adequately 

 represented on the International Committee of Zoological Nomenclature in view 

 of the fact that insects form by far the greater part of the terrestrial fauna, this 

 lack of representation is admittedly unfair and has been responsible to some extent 

 for the formation of a committee of the International Congress of Entomology to 

 deal with these questions of nomenclature. 



To my mind one of the most important considerations is the question as to 

 what would happen in the event of disagreement between our International Com- 

 mittee on Entomology and the International Committee on Zoological Nomen- 

 clature, and I was very pleased to receive publicly from Dr. Karl Jordan, the 

 Secretary of the Congress, the assurance that in cases of such disagreement the 

 findings of the International Committee on Nomenclature would prevail. I 

 believe that the formation of these national committees and the International 

 Committee will be productive of much good in deciding disputed questions. 



Among the many interesting, suggestive and valuable papers dealing with the 

 problems of economic entomology none was productive, to my mind, of so inter- 



