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On Wednesday morning a meeting of the Council was held in the Biological 

 Lecture Room, at which, among other matters, certain proposed changes in the con- 

 stitution of the Society were discussed. These changes, which were afterwards 

 sanctioned at the general meeting, have been included in the copy of the con- 

 stitution of the Society which appeared in the December number of the Canadian 

 Entomologist. 



In the afternoon the members and delegates met in the Massey Hall Auditor- 

 ium, the proceedings commencing with an address of welcome by President Creel- 

 man of the College, after which the congratulatory addresses from the representa- 

 tives of other societies and institutions were presented. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Dr. G. C. Creelmax. President of the Ontario Agricultural College, in a 

 most genial and hearty manner welcomed the members of the Society and the 

 visitors from other lands. He then went on to say: 



I see a numbef of men who were formerly students at this College, now 

 working in different Provinces of the Dominion of Canada. We are delighted to 

 have these men come back to the old college and Province of Ontario, and to the 

 Entomological Society. We are pleased to see so many strong men who have done 

 actual work on our farms. We have been able through our Department of 

 Entomology to give out a large amount of information to the farmer, which he was 

 otherwise unable to get by himself. That would be a good definition for a college: 

 " A place where people are taught things that cannot be taught at home." What 

 you men can do in entomology, etc., farmers are incapable of doing for themselves. 



I want to pay a tribute to the scientific men throughout the length and 

 breadth of this and other lands at the present time — the men who have helped 

 agriculture. The farmer usually has been a hewer of wood, as there has been so 

 much necessity for manual labor on the farm, and he has not had time to work 

 out the life histories of the various injurious insects. You have done it for him, 

 and prescribed the remedy, until now by putting down his name, he can get by 

 mail free the thing that is necessary to kill the injurious things on his farm. You 

 have experimented, you have tried it and the farmer gets the results of your labors, 

 at home. Tt is not alvvavs appreciated, even the asTricultural press is inclined at 

 times to tell them not to have too much of it ; but I think more and more that the 

 scientific man, and the entomologist in particular, is beginning to come in to his 

 own. 



T hope to see all here to-night at a reception to be given by Mrs. Creel man and 

 myself at our residence. 



The evening was marked by one of the most enjoyable features of the meeting, 

 a reception given to the members by President and Mrs. Creelman at their 

 residence. 



On Thursday morning a business meeting was held in the Biological Lecture 

 Room, at which the officers for the ensuing year were elected and several matters 

 of interest to the members were discussed. Of these reference has already been 

 made to the revised constitution of the Society. Among other matters a resolution 

 was passed recommending that the various entomological societies be properly 



