32 THE EEPOET OF THE No. 36 



GEEETINGS FROM SUEVIVING OEIGINAL MEMBEES. 



Wm. Saundees, LL.D., the first Secretary-Treasurer of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, and for a number of years its President, sent cordial greetings 

 to the officers and members by his son, on the occasion of the jubilee of the Society. 

 Dr. Saunders' health was too frail to permit him to attend the gathering. 



Mr. Edmund Baynes Eeed, another surviving charter member, also sent a 

 message from his present home in Victoria, B.C. Among other things he said: 



"I have a vivid recollection of the organization of our society and our first 

 meeting at the residence of Professor Croft, and I have many pleasant memories 

 of long years of friendly intercourse with many of my brethren of the ISFet. It 

 seems hard to realize that only three of us remain of our original Charter number, 

 but amidst all our feelings of sincere regret for the many absent friends and 

 members who have "crossed the bar" there are bright and cheering thoughts of 

 the splendid work carried on with their assistance so perseveringly for many 

 years, which has helped to place our Society so deservedly in the forefront of this 

 our chosen branch of Natural History. I especially bear in mind our valuable 

 Library, in which I have always taken the deepest interest from its earliest days, 

 when it began with some half dozen books lent by myself." 



Mr. N. H. Covt^DET^ who was one of the earliest members of the Society, 

 writing from Chicago, 111., said : "It is hard for me to realize that fifty years- 

 have passed since the first meeting. I was then fourteen years old, and can 

 well remember some meetings which were held in a room opposite what is now the 

 Assistant Eeceiver General's office in Toronto, and also some at the residences of 

 Professors Croft and Hincks and Dr. Sangster. Some field days also interested 

 me very much." 



THE EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



The Eoyal Society of Canada takes a particular pleasure in extending to the 

 President, officers and members of the Entomological Society of Ontario its- 

 felicitations on the occasion of your fiftieth annual meeting. As one of its 

 affiliated societies, the Eoyal Society is mindful of the progress and invaluable 

 work of your society whose field of labor is co-extensive with its own. The in- 

 clusion in its fellowship, however, of so many Canadian entomologists who have 

 gained distinction through their advancement of the science, strengthens the 

 bond which exists between the two societies. We would remind you that one of 

 your founders, Dr. Wm. Saunders, C.M.G., is not only a charter member of the 

 Eoyal Society also, but held with distinction the office of President of the Eoyal 

 Society in 1906-7. Your Jubilelg /President, the Eev. Charles J. S. Bethune, 

 M.A., D.C.L., and another of the foundera of your society, has for many years been 

 a Fellow of the Eoyal Society of Canada." The late Dr. James Fletcher, LL.D.,. 

 twice your President, filled the office of Honorary Secretary df the Eoyal Society 

 and worked for its welfare with that characteristic devotion ' which is known so- 

 well to your Society and, which advanced your science in Canada to a degree not 

 previously attained. As a Fellow "of our' Society we', also deplored the death of 

 the Eev. G. W. Taylor, whose studies' in the Geometridre gained him a continental 

 reputation, and another of .our Fellows, Mr. W. H. Harrington, added consider- 



