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gained regarding insects. When they were able to put their knowledge to a practical 

 purpose and to take up its application they did so with untiring zeal. This is the 

 lesson taught by a study of the subject of my address,, and in directing your care- 

 ful attention to it I would urge the necessity of our emulating the example of 

 [he founders of applied entomology in Canada. Let it be our constant endeavor 

 in developing the work of our society and of our work in Canada to recognize the 

 need of, and endeavor at all times to secure the closesit co-operation between the 

 man who collects and studies our insects for the mere pleasure of gaining the won- 

 derful and unequalled insight into nature that it gives and. the man whose studies 

 lie in the laboratory and in the field and forest. With such co-operation there can 

 be no doubt as to the place which entomology in Canada will occupy. 



Dr. Bkthune: We have all, I am sure, listened with the greatest possible 

 interest to the admirable address which Dr. Hewitt has just given us. It is 

 certainly the most complete and exhaustive history of the rise and progress of 

 economic entomology which has yet been prepared in this country, and I think 

 we all must feel that we owe a very hearty vote of thanks to Dr. Hewitt for 

 his successful efforts in this respect. Dr. Hewitt has come in at the end of the 

 first period of history in this respect, and we may look to him with the greatest 

 confidence to carry on and develop to a far greater extent than we who belong 

 to the earlier period ever dreamed of, this work of economic entomology in 

 Canada, and to mature the systematic side as well. The two cannot exist satis- 

 factorily away from each other, and there must be this co-ordination to which 

 he has referred in order that we may have success in both directions and in the 

 important field of economic entomology. 



Dr. Fyles: We have all listened, I am sure, with the greatest pleasure to 

 the able and stimulating address that Dr. Hewitt has given us, and we all feel, 

 I am sure, that the Government has the right man in the right place. It is indeed 

 a great thing to have a man who brings it before us in such an able way, and 

 urges men to carry on works which are now being undertaken to develop practical 

 entomology as Dr. Hewitt has done. I am sure we all feel that he is entitled 

 to our warmest thanks, and while we feel this, at the same time it is a great 

 pleasure to us to see our friend Dr. Bethune, our old President, the Editor of 

 our paper for so long a time, present amongst us and occupying the chair, and 

 while we are sorry that several old friends have passed away, as some of our 

 dear friends have lately done, it is a source of rejoicing that we still have Dr. 

 Bethune amongst us. Long may he continue his services to the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario. We are glad to see younger men coming up and doing the 

 work in such an able way as so many of the younger men are carrying on the 

 work in distant parts of the country for the general good. I beg to second the 

 vote of thanks that Dr. Bethune has proposed to Dr. Hewitt, and hope that he 

 may long continue his work with his able assistant Mr. Gibson. If you go to 

 the new apartments of the Department of Entomology in Ottawa, and go upstairs 

 in one of the towering buildings which men are putting up in these days, you 

 will find large rooms there devoted to our favourite science, and there you will 

 find Dr. Hewitt and Mr. Gibson ready to afford you all information in their 

 power and to show you very valuable collections that are there gathered. 



The President : I thank you all for your very cordial and most encouraging 

 reception of my paper and for Dr. Bethune's and Dr. Eyles' encouraging words, 

 and I only hope, as I endeavoured to show in my paper, that it is upon the 

 wonderful example of our founders, particularly that of Dr. Bethune, that we 

 are basing our efforts, anrl hope as best we can to follow that example in the 

 development and progress of our work in Canada. 

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