Disbursements. 



By Canadian Entomologist, printing, &c 347 75 



" Paper for 102 76 



" PriotinL labels . 



" Mail list and stamping 



" Travelling expenses to Annual Meetiog 



" Sundry small expenses 



•' Postage, express and duties 



" Library 



" Engravings .' 



" Merchandise, pins and cork 89 00 



" Insurance ...'. 10 63 



" Editor's salary 100 00 



" Secretary-Treasurer's salary 50 00 



" Expenses ot Annual Report 68 00 



" Balance 236 85 



1,231 32 



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

 26th 1877, as shown by the Treasurer's books, and with vouchers for the same. 



John M. Denton, 1 - ,. 

 Charles Ch.u>man. | ^'''^'''"•''- ^ 



RFPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1877. 



In presenting the seventh annual report, the Council feel highly gratified at the success 

 that has attended the labours of the Society during the past year. 



We are happy to note the return of the Society's Centennial collection of insects, which 

 reached London in goo.d condition shortly after the close of the International Exhibition. 

 This collection, which was noticed in your last annual report, is now placed in the Rooms, 

 where it will in future be available for reference. As this beautiful collection was made up 

 largely from the cabinets of individual members of the Society, who generously loaned the 

 insects for the purpose of exhibition, it was thought that if the imme<liate return of the 

 loaned spicimens was insisted on, the value of the series would be greatly impaired ; but we 

 are hapjiy to state that the parties conccrued have in most cases given their consent to allow 

 the specimens to remain on deposit in the Society's Rooms, so that we still retain the Centen- 

 nial Collection of Canadian Insects almost intact, a monument to the zeal and industry of 

 those members of the Society who were actively engaged in this work. 



We may add that this collection was placed on exhibition at the Rooms on .several occa- 

 sions after its return, when some of the members were present to assist visitors, and from the 

 interest manifested then by the public in the matter, we would recommend that the Rooms 

 be thrown open occasionally to all who may desire to visit them, and that public notice be 

 given of the same 



The Canadian Entomolouist has almost completed its ninth volume, and fully main- 

 tains its reputation as a record of the latest inyestigations and discoveries in scientifio and 

 practical Entomology. We would return our heartiest thanks to all those who have so kindly 

 contributed to the pages of the Entomologist, and request that they will continue to favour 

 the Editor with the results of their observations and experiments. Although we have reason 

 to feel gratified at the efforts of the Society to excite in the general public an interest in En- 

 tomology, yet we would respectfully suggest that our successors may be able in some measure 

 to improve on the means adopted in the past to render the Entomologist even more useful 

 to beginners in this interesting science, either by more frequent descriptions and illustrations 

 of our common insects, and jierhaps by referring to the insects that are likely to appear in each 

 month of the summer, and the manner of their capture and preservation, or in any other 

 method that may appear suitable. 



