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llie least important of the Bureau's activities will be the publishing of a monthly 

 journal for distribution to the colonies, which journal will contain summarized 

 abstracts of current literature relating to the control and eradication of insect 

 pests. With the increase of entomological literature and with the decrease of 

 opportunity which entomologists have with their increasing duties to keep them- 

 selves acquainted with all that is being published on economic entomology, the 

 value of a journal of this nature cannot be overestimated, and it will be especially 

 appreciated by and of great value to those entomologists working in countries where 

 they have not access to scientific libraries and where scientific literature is con- 

 spicuous by its absence. To them, most of all, will such a journal be useful. I 

 look forward very much to this Imperial Bureau becoming a powerful factor in the 

 general campaign against insect pests and their spread. 



Turning from Imperial matters to Canada, I will briefly refer to the various 

 developments in entomology in this coantry during the past year. One of the 

 most important extensions of the work of the Division of Entomology has been the 

 establishment of field laboratories, to the proposed establishment of which I 

 referred in my address twelve months ago. These stations are now an accom- 

 plished fact and by means of their establishment we have been able to carry on 

 important investigations in a wider field. During the past year field work has been 

 carried on in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario (two stations) and 

 British Columbia, and most of our field oflricers carrying on the work at these 

 stations will give brief accounts of their respective investigations at this meeting. 

 I need not, therefore, refer to them more fully. 



Two other branches of our work have been extended, and assistant entom- 

 ologists have been appointed to devote their special attentions to these branches. 

 Mr. J. M. Swaine was appointed last December to take charge of the work on forest 

 insects, and during the past summer he has made very marked progress in this 

 work which has been so long neglected in Canada, but which now needs all the 

 attention we can give it if the conservation of our forest is to be studied in its neces- 

 sarily broad manner. Mr. Swaine will give an account of his season's work and 

 his visits to Manitoba and other parts of eastern Canada. I am also pleased to 

 announce that by the appointment of Mr. F. W. L. Sladen we shall be able to give to 

 apiculture the attention which it deserves, and we are proposing to carry on experi- 

 mental work in queen breeding and other branches which are essential for the 

 prosperity and extension of bee-keeping in this country. A long, intimate and 

 practical experience in bee-keeping in England has made Mr. Sladen unusually 

 well qualified for this work, and we are fortunate in having so distinguished a 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society of London with us permanently. Mr. Sladen, 

 in addition to his studies of the honey bees, has made a life-long study of the 

 Bombi, and he will give us to-night an account of some of his work. 



The inspection work under the Destructive Insect and Pest Act is now well 

 organized, and the amount of work it entails upon the Division will be realized by 

 the fact that the last importation season about 4,000,000 plants were inspected. 

 One instance alone which I am mentioning will indicate the value of this inspec- 

 tion work. Mr. E. C. Treherne, our officer in charge of our work at Vancouver, 

 discovered in a shipment of trees from Japan a Thuja on which no less than eight 

 Qg,g masses of the Gipsy Moth were found, and by the time these reached Ottawa, 

 hundreds of the larvae had emerged. Such a discovery as this needs no comment. 

 The field work in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick which consists in scouting the 



