By Library , ^5S 95 



" Editor's salary for 1872 , 100 00 



" " " " 1874 100 00 



" Secretary's salary for 1873 50 00 



" " " " 1874 50 00 



" Expenses, sundry small 120 18 



" Kent 80 00 



" Expenses of Report 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 

 Chas. Chapman 



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Auditors. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



It is gratifying, at the expiration of this the fourth year of the existence of our Society, 

 to be able to report its continued well-being and progress, and to know that its efforts are be- 

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

 chief source of the wealth of our Province. 



The Entumologid is still regularly published, and has now nearly reached the close of its 

 sixth volume. By its regular issue there has been placed before our members much useful 

 and practical information relating to many of the commoner insect pests, with instructions as 

 to the use of the bcsf remedies to check tlieir ravage.?. Besides this it has formed, and still 

 forms, a valuable medium for the publication of such scientific matter in relation to the life 

 history of our insects, which, while of immediate interest to only a limited number of our 

 readers, is of great importance to those engaged in the study of the science of Entomology. 

 We feel that our journal has done and is still doing a good work in this respect ; and it is 

 pleasing to know that our efforts in this direction are warmly appreciated by scientific men in 

 the adjoining Republic and in Europe, as well as in our own country. 



As mentioned in the Report of the last Annual Meeting, a cordial invitation was ex- 

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

 in Portland, in 1873, to the members of our Society to be present at the meeting in 1874, in 

 Hartford. A deputation was appointed 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 Entomologist : — 



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 owing partly, no doubt, to the kind 

 invitation extended by the Association to the American and Canadian Entomoloj^ical Socie- 

 ties to app.iint special meetings of their members to be held at that tin-e and place, with the 

 view of having these importaat ."Societies fully represented. In response to this invitation, a 

 nUml er of memlicrs of the American Entomological Society were present, while our Cana- 

 dian Entomologists were represented by the worthy President of our Society, Rev. ('. J. S. B&. 

 thune, M.A., and the VA'itor of the EiUomdkigi.it. Several evenings were occupied by these 

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

 ities of various insects, the time passing so pleasantly that the midnight hours were reached 

 ere .separation could bo effected. After mature deliberation it was resolved to organize 

 under the name of " Tlie Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S.,'' and the following consti- 

 tution was adopted : — 



