Difibiirsemenis. 



ByCANAPiAN Entomolouist, priuting L'lid paper $533 91 



" Engravings for Report 134 64 



" Expenses of Report 120 00 



■' Editor's salary 100 00 



" Secretary-Treasurer's salary 50 00 



" Expenses, sundry small 26 53 



" Rent 80 00 



" Insurance 10 63 



" Library 107 51 



" Advanced Centennial Fund 50 00 



" Balance on hjnd 232 33 



1,445 55 



, We certify the above as a correct statement of accounts for the year end'ug September 

 22nd, 1875, of the Treasurer of the Entomological Society of Ontario, as shown by the 

 books and vouchers. 



Chas. Chapman, ) , ,., 

 J. H. GxiiFPiTHs; } ^^ddors. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



At the close of this the fifth year of the existence of our Society, it is our pleasin;; duty 

 to bear testimony to the fact th it it still sustains iU well earned reputation. A knowled"e 

 of insects and their habits, which it is the special object of our Society to advance, is now 

 generally recognised as of great value to the farmer, fruit grower and others; and in view of 

 the immense destruction insects entail, the money value of such knowledge, where it enables 

 the cultivator of the soil to combat successfully the ravages of these formidable foes, is a mat- 

 ter of no small moment. 



Branches of our Society are still in active existonce in London, Kingston and Montreal, 

 where they are doing much to advance the interests of our favourite study. The members of 

 our Montreal branch huve been p rticularly active during the past year, as will be seen from 

 the Reports of their officers herewith submitted, and they have individually lurnislied many 

 interesting papers for the Entomolo;;ist on the insects tnuml in thcT di^irict. 



A request having been made that our Society should prepare a collection of Can idiim In- 

 sects for the Centennial Kxhibition to be held in Philadelphia duriig the cominsi year, and 

 a grant .sufficient to cover a portion of the expense Inving been rcooiiimonded, we are gratified 

 to know that our members have entered most heartily into the work, and many of them have 

 placed their entire collections at the disposal of the Committee appointed to make the Lelectioa 

 of specimens. We doulit not but th it this collection will be a most interesting featuic in the 

 Canadian Department of the Exhibition, and will be in every way worthy of our Society and 

 country. 



During the past year death has deprived us of one of our esteemed honorary members the 

 first elected by this Society, and one who has generously donated to our .Society's cabinets many 

 objects of interest, and contributed tn our J ■urnal m iny valuible pipers. We allude to the 

 late Francis Walker, of the British .Mu.seum. One of our v lued American contributors has 

 also passed away, Mr. Philip L. Sprague, of Boston. Mas. Brief obituary uot'ces of bjth 

 will be found in the Report. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Club of the .\mer-can Association for the .\dvaoce- 

 ment of Science, recently held at Detroit, our Society was re,ircsente:i by Mr. W. Saunders, 

 Editor of the Entomoi.ooist. .Many interesting facts in reference to in.sect life were elicited at 

 the various meetinirs h.ld by the Club, and .,om • important c >nclus'on^- arrived at affeotio' 

 the welfare of Kntomology. An account of these meetin 's will be given elsewhere. 



The publication of the organ of the Society, the Canadian E.mo.mologist, is still 



