By Library 158 95 



" Editor's salary for 1872 100 00 



" " 1874 100 00 



" Secretary's salary for 1873 50 00 



" " " " 1874 50 00 



" Expenses, suDdry small 120 18 



" Rent 80 00 



" Expenses of Keport 51 00 



" Balance, cash in bank 422 16 



1760 16 



We certify the above as a correct statement of accounts for the year ending September 

 23, 1874, as shown by Treasurer's books and with vouchers for the same. 



J. H. Griffiths, ) > ,., 

 Uhas. Chapman, } ^"^'^'^ 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



It is gratifying, at the expiration of this the fourth year of t;^^ ejuslehde of our Society, 

 to be aole to report its continued well-being and progress, and t- ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ .^^ ^g.^^^^ ^^.^ ^^ 

 ing more and more recognized as nn aid to those agricultural interests which constitute the 

 chief source oi the wealth ot our I'rovincc. 



The Entomologist is still regularly published, and ha^^ ^^^ ^^^^j ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^^ ^^ j,^ 

 sixth volume By its regular issue there has been plar- ^^ ^^f^^^ ^^^ members much useful 

 and practical information relating to many of the com ^^^^^ j^^^^^ ^ ^j^^ instructions as 

 to the use of the best remedies to check their ravag g^^jj^^ ^^j^ j^ j^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^jU 



forms, a valuable medium for the pubhcation of s- ^j^ scientific matter in relation to the life 

 history of our insects, which, while of immedir^^ i^t^^^gt ^^ ^, ^ l^^j^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^. ^^^ 

 readers, is of great importance to those engage j j^ j^e study of the science of Entomolosy. 

 We feel that our journal has done and is st, jj ^^j^^ ^ „^^^^ ^^^^ j^ j,^;^ ^.^ . ^^^ j -j^ 



pleasing to know that our efforts in this dir.eetigj, ^^^ warmly appreciated by scientific men in. 

 the adjoining Republic and in Europe, as. ^gij gg j„ ^^j. ^^^ country 



As mentioned in the lieport of tl-.e last Annual Meeting, a cordial invitation was ex- 

 tended by the " American Associatioa for the Advancement of Science," at the meeting held 

 in Portland, in 1873, to the mem'jers of our Society to be present at the meeting in 1874. ia 

 Hartford. A deputation was ar^poiuted by your Council to attend this meeting on behalf of 

 our Society, in reference to which the following report appeared in the September number of 

 the Enlumoloyist : — 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 



At the recent gathering of this scientific body in Hartford, Conn., there were brought 

 together an unusual number of Entomologists. This was owin- partly, no doubt to the kfnd 

 mvitation extended by the Association to tlie American and ('anadian Enlomolo-ical Socie 

 ties to appoint special meetings of their members to be held at tiiat tiire and place with the 

 view of having these important >ocieties fully represented. In response to this invitation a 

 number of memljers of the American Entomological Society were present, while our Cana 

 dian Entomologists were represented by the wonhy President of our Society 'Uev (' J S Be-" 

 thune, M.A., and the Editor of the Euimnolor/ist. Several evenings were occupied bv'those 

 '• brethren of the net " in interesting and profitable discussions on the habits and peculiar 

 ities of various insects, the time pa.ssing so pleasantly that the midnight liours were reached 

 ere separation could be effected. After mature deliberation it was resolved to oriranize 

 under the name of' " The Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S.," and the followin- consti 

 tution was adopted : — o > 



