26 THE EEPORT OF THE No. 36 



EEPORT OP THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society begs to present its report for the 

 year 1912-13. 



The 49th annual meeting of the Society was held at Ottawa on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, November 19th and 20th, 1912. The day meetings were held at the 

 Carnegie library and the chair was occupied by the President, Dr. E. M. Walker. 

 In the evening a meeting was held at the Normal School and presided over by the 

 Honorable Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion. There were 

 a number of members present from a distance and a good attendance of those 

 resident in Ottawa. During the first morning a meeting of the Council took place 

 at the Experimental Farm. A committee was then appointed to consider certain 

 changes in the constitution of the Society which were proposed at a recent meeting 

 at Guelph. Arrangements were also made for marking the Society's 50th Annual 

 Meeting by holding the Jubilee celebration at Guelph and inviting delegates from 

 other societies and institutions. A special committee was appointed to take charge 

 of the arrangements in connection with the meeting. In the afternoon the reports 

 of the Directors on the insects of the year, and of the Montreal, Toronto and 

 British Columbia Branches were read and discussed. The President, Dr. Walker, 

 delivered the annual address, on the " Faunal Zones of Canada." Dr. Hewitt gave a 

 review of Canadian entomology for 1912, in which he described the work of the 

 Division for the year and of the valuable results that had already followed the 

 establishment of field stations. Prof. Lochhead gave an address on the teaching of 

 Entomology in the Agricultural Colleges. Dr. Fyles read one of his charming 

 papers on the " Rise in Public Estimation of the Science of Entomology.'' 



A public meeting was held in the evening in the auditorium of the Normal 

 School. After an introductory address by the Chairman, the Honorable Martin 

 Burrell, Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, of the Division of Entomology, gave a very inter- 

 esting and instructive lecture on " Bumble Bees and tlieir Ways," illustrated by a 

 number of beautiful lantern slides. 



On Wednesday the following papers were read : " The Chinch Bug in On- 

 tario," by Mr. H. F. Hudson ; " The Importation and Establishment; of Predaceous 

 Enemies of the Brown-tail Moth in New Brunswick," by Mr. J. D. Tothill ; " The 

 Discovery of the San Jose Scale in Nova Scotia," by Mt. G. E. Sanders ; " Obser- 

 vations on the Effect of Climatic Conditions on the Brown-tail Moth in Canada," 

 by Messrs. Tothill and Sanders ; " Observations on the Apple Maggot in Ontario in 

 1912," by Mr. W. A. Ross; "Notes on Injurious Orchard Insects in Quebec in 

 1912," by Mr. C. E. Petch; "Insects of the Season in Ontario," by Mr. L. Cfesar; 

 "Injurious Insects in Quebec for the year 1912," by Prof. W. Lochhead; "Forest 

 Insects in Canada in 1912," by Mr. J. M. Swaine; " The Elater Beetles," by Mr. G. 

 Beaulieu ; " Aquatic Insects," by Dr. R. Matheson ; " The Entomological Record for 

 1912," and " Flea Beetles and their Control," by Mr. A. Gibson ; "Insect Pests of 

 Southern Manitoba during 1912,'' by Mr. Norman Criddle; " Some New and Un- 

 recorded Ontario Fruit Pests " and " Arsenite of Zinc as a Substitute for Arsenate 

 of Lead," by Mr. L. Csesar. A special feature of the meeting was an interesting 

 address by Mr. J. H. Grisdale, Director of the Dominion Experimental Farms, in 

 which a keen appreciation was shown of the work that is now being done in Canada 

 in Economic Entomology. 



