I have mucb pleasure in beina; able to report an increase in our membership, which has 

 now reached 300, and that under the f istering care of your Department a more general interest 

 in practical Entomology seems to be making its way steadily among the agricultural com- 

 munity. 



To Canadians generally it must be gratifying to know that the course pursued by your 

 Department in encouraging the efforts of the fruit-grower, and in disseminating a knowledge 

 of the various in?ect friends and foes, has called forth warm commendations from several of 

 the English scientific papers, and strong suggestions have been made that a similar course 

 should be pursued by the Home Department. 



I have the honour to remain, 



Your obedient servant, 



Edmund Batnes Reed, 



Secretary-Treasurer of the EntnmologiralSnciety of Ontario. 

 London, Oat., Nov., 1S72. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The second annual general meeting of the Society was held at the Court-House, Hamil- 

 ton^ Ontario, on Thursday Evening, September 27, 1872. 



The President, the Rev. 0. J. S. Bethune, M.A.. in the chair. 



The miinutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 



The President's address, the report of the Council, and the financial statement of the 

 Secretary-Treasurer were then read, and on motion duly received and adopted. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 1873. 



The following Officers were then elected: 



I'residenl. — Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont. 



Vice-President. — W. Saunders, Esq., London, Ont. 



Secretary-Treasurer. — E. B. Reed, Esq., London, Ont. 



Co^mcil. — Prof. J. Macoun, Belleville; R. V. Rogers, Esq., Kingston; J. M. Denton, 

 Esq., London ; J. Pettit, Esq., Grimsby, A. Macallum, Esq., Hamilton. 



Auditor.^:. — J. H. Griffiths and Chas. Chapman, London. 



On motion duly carried, it was resolved that the sura of -JlOO be paid respectively to the 

 President as Editor of the Entomologist, and the Secretary-Treasurer, for their services 

 during the year 1872. 



The state of the Library was discussed, and suggestions made with reference ts its 

 management. 



The subject of the Report on Insects was laid before the meeting, and information 

 elicited from the members respecting the prevalence of any special damage caused in their re- 

 spective districts by the attacks of in.sects on field or garden crops. A vote of thanks was 

 passed to Judge Logic for his courtoey in granting the use of his room for the annual 

 meeting. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



In presenting the Second Annual Report, the Council feel highly gratified at the mea- 

 sure of success which has attended the Society during the past year. Confined, as its mem- 

 bership naturally is, to a small numerical portion of the public, it is yet very evident from 

 the increased number of new members that the Society's efforts are appreciated, and that 

 the science of practical Entomology is being gradually forced upon the notice of our most 

 intelligent agriculturists and horticulturists. Fifty-four new members have entered our 

 ranks this season, several of them being entomologists of some reputation. Our total num- 

 ber is now 300, made up as below :— 



