1913 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 45 



What pleasure and profit we have derived from addresses from L. 0. Howard, 

 F. M. Webster, John B. Smith, Ephraim Porter Felt! 



Science knows no political boundaries; and between Canada and the United 

 States there has always been, and I trust always will be, free and unchecked 

 Entomological reciprocity. 



Speaking of intercourse with the Americans, let me bring in an episode : — 



Once upon a time when I was Rector of ISTelsonville (Cowansville and 

 Sweetsburgh), I received a request from Sheldon, Vermont, that I would give a 

 lecture upon "Our Insect Friends and Insect Foes." I complied, and, the winter 

 roads being good, I took my horse and sleigh, and one of my boys, and drove to 

 Sheldon. It was a long drive; but we reached our destination in good time for the 

 lecture. We had a full house. At the close of the proceedings we found that it 

 was snowing. It snowed all night, and all the next day (Friday), We were in 

 for what is called in those parts a three days' storm. At night I said to the 

 gentleman with whom I was staying : "1 must, if any means be possible, get home to- 

 morrow, for my Sunday duties." We planned that I should leave my boy and 

 team with him, till the roads were broken out, that I should take the train from 

 Sheldon to St. Albans, and catch the Montreal Express. This would carry me to 

 St. Johns, where I could take the South Eastern to Cowansville. Accordingly next 

 morning I went to the station. The storm was at its height. A man came in, 

 and as he shook the snow from his fur coat, exclaimed, "What do you call this — a 

 Canada thaw?" 



I followed the course we had planned — reached St. Albans— caught the express 

 — I left it at St. Jolins — took the South Eastern — but, alack ! at West Famham the 

 train came to a dead stop — the line was completely blocked. 



I took refuge with my friend, the Rev. T. W. Mussen, and, next morning, as 

 there was no movement on the line, assisted him in the services of his church. As 

 we were leaving the building word was brought to us that men with an engine 

 and snow-plough were about to open the track as far as Cowansville. I entered 

 the snow-plough. In it were half-a-dozen navvies with picks and shovels. Every- 

 thing was icy. We started — Thud — grind — hump — retire — charge again! And so, 

 for five hours. We reached Cowansville at half past six. I was cold, tired, and 

 bruised, but I found the sexton, bade liim light up the church and ring the bell; 

 and the Lord's Day did not pass without public worship in my parish. 



I have given, by request, twenty-five such lectures as I gave at Sheldon, in 

 halls and school-houses, in different parts of the country; and the desire for informa- 

 tion upon entomological subjects— even from so poor an exponent of them as 

 myself — betokens, I think, a considerable advance in public estimation of the Science 

 of Entomology. 



To go back a few years: Montreal at the time I lived in it was but a small 

 city. It had I think 66,000 inhabitants. I could find in it only one entomologist, 

 Mr. Barnston, who lived on City Councillor Street Mr. George J. Bowles and 

 Mr. William Couper then lived in Quebec. 



Ten years after I left, five gentlemen met by chance on Mount Royal, and 

 decided to form a Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario. They and 

 two others met on the 16th of October, 1873, and elected officers : — 



President: William Couper. 



Vice-President: H. Kolmar. 



Secretary-Treasurer : P. B. CaAilfield. 



Council: G. J. Bowles, P. Kuetzing, and C. W. Pearson. 



Curator: William Hibbins. 



