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work the translator says: "The amiable qualities with which nature has enriched 

 Your Royal Highness, ha\ne been so happily cultivated by the best of educations, 

 that I am persuaded the wonderful scenes of Providence, so elegantly displayed 

 in this treatise, will not be considered by Your Royal Highness as an unpleasing 

 entertainment," etc. If I mistake not, this Duke of Cumberland was the same 

 who, seven years afterwards, on Drummossie Moor, slaughtered the followers of 

 Prince Charles Edward, and gained the title of Butcher Cumberland. 



My copy of the "Spectacle of Nature" is one of the fourth edition, printed in 

 1739. It is profusely illustrated by Mkdam Cochin. The insects figured are easily 

 recognized. The dialogues in this work are supposed to be carried on by the Count 

 and Countess de Jonval, the Prior de Jonval, and the Chevalier du Breuil (the 

 youth under instruction). I obtained the book in a second-hand book-store in 

 Montreal. 



No "doubt incoming naturalists brought in works of the masters in Entomology. 

 I have seen in Canada the productions of Swammerdam, Latreille, Kirby, Drury, 

 Stainton, Thomas Say — ^the father of American Entomology — and others, but these 

 would be read by few. I have also found in second-hand book-stores, popular works 

 likely to interest the young, such as, Knight's "Insect Miscellanies," London, 1831, 

 and the "History of Insects," Religious Tract Society, 1839. Seed had been 

 scattered. 



A grand movement for the advancement of practical entomology was made 

 when the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., of Cobourg, and W. Saunders, Esq., of 

 London, issued a circular, calling upon those interested in Entomology to meet 

 in Toronto, on the 16th of April, 1863. The following are the names of those 

 who responded to the call. Prof. W. Hincks, F.L.S., Prof. H. Croft, D.C.L., 

 Beverly R. Morris, M.D.,* J. H. Sangster, A.M., and J. Hibbert, of Toronto; 

 Thomas Cowdry, M.D., and H. Cowdry, York Mills ; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., 

 of Cobourg; W. Saunders, London. 



The Society formed at this meeting received encouragement and support from 

 the Ontario Government, and grew rapidly. It was incorporated in May, 1871, 

 and its first general meeting was held on September 27th in the same year. The 

 officers elected on that occasion were : — 



President: Rev. C. J. S. Bethiune, M.A., Trinity College School, Port Hope. 



Ti'je-President: W. Saunders Esq., London, Qnt. 



Secretary-Treasurer : E. Baynes Reed, Esq., London, Ont. 



Council: Prof. H. Croft, Unlversiity College, Toronto; Prof. J.Macoun, Albert 

 College, Belleville; R. V. Rogers, Esq., Kingston; J. M. Denton, Esq., London; J. Petit, 

 Esq., Grimsby. 



Auditors: J. H. Griffith, Esq., and C. Chapman, Esq., London. 



Of those whose names are given above three men are entitled to our deepest 

 respect and gratitude, because of the support they have given to our Society, and 

 because of their eminent services to the community at large. 



Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, Professor of Entomology in Ontario Agricultural 

 College, was for many years the Head Master of one of our great public schools ; 

 yet, notwithstanding the many duties that devolved upon him, he remained all 

 the time, and has continued to this day, a firm supporter of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario. We all deeply regret that a severe affection of the eyes keeps 



* Dr. Beverly R. Morris returned to England shortly afterwards. He was a brother 

 of the Rev. F. O. Morris, M.A., Member of the Ashmolean Society, etc., author of a 

 " History of British Birds," " A Natural Hii-story of British Moths," and " A History of 

 British Butterflies." 



