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Agricultural Society have been satisfactorily composed, and that the Society, having 

 apologised for the action which led to her resignation, will now be able to count once 

 more upon her invaluable assistance in all matters that relate to ]>ractical entomology. 

 A very remarkable testimony to her ability and worth was afforded by the British press 

 when the fact of her resignation was first made known. The leading agricultural jour- 

 nals and the newspapers, including the Times, spoke in warm terms of her merits and 

 deprecated the action of the Society ; social papers, such as the Queen, discussed the case 

 and took up the cudgels in her defence ; and all alike bore lively testimony to the 

 inestimable value of her services. 



Her sister. Miss Georgiana E. Ormerod, has recently published a series of coloi'ed 

 diagrams of insects injurious to vegetation ; they are 30 in number, and include all the 

 most prevalent attacks upon crops, fruits and trees. They are beautifully executed and 

 will be found most useful for the illustration of lectures to classes or addresses to 

 farmers' institutes. Though intended for England, nearly all of them are equally appli- 

 cable to this country. 



In technical entomology the year has been marked by the publication of Mr. S. 

 H. Scudder's grand work on Fossil Insects of the Tertiary Period. He has devoted 

 to its preparation about a dozen years of patient toil, and it stands forth in conjunction 

 with his marvellous volumes on " The Butterflies of the New England States and Canada," 

 as a monument to his great ability, industry and learning. In this work he gives descrip- 

 tions of no less than 612 species, for the most part collected in Colorado, Wyoming 

 and British Columbia, with some from Pennsylvania, and Scarborough in this Province. 

 Nearly all the species are beautifully figured on large lithographic plates. 



Mr. W. H. Edwards continues to issue his work on "The Butterflies of North 

 America," with its unsurpassed colored illustrations. The twelfth part of the third 

 series is now announced as ready for distribution. 



To turn for a few moments to our own affairs, I think I shall voice the feelings 

 of you all when I say that we have much reason to congratulate our&elves on the progre.ss 

 and continued ?uccess of our Society, which is testified to in the reports of the council, 

 and the treasurer and curator, which will presently be laid before you. It is well, how- 

 ever, for us all to remember that membership of a society carries with it the duty not 

 only of paying the annual subscription to its funds, but also of giving some of our 

 time and some of our work to furthering the special objects which it has in view. 

 Much could no doubt be done by even the youngest and least skilled of our mem- 

 bers by collecting specimens for our cabinets, making field observations on the habits 

 of insects, or rearing them through their preparatory stages. Much remains to be 

 learnt regarding the life history of many of our common butterflies, and there is 

 still a boundless field to be surveyed among the moths and the other orders of insects. 

 Short notes of original observations will always be of value and will be welcomed 

 for publication by the editor of your journal, the Canadian Entomologist ; he will 

 also be pleased, especially at the present time, to receive contributions of an economic 

 character for the pages ot the annual report. 



I beg to thank you, gentlemen, for your kind patience with me while I have attempted 

 to lay before you those matters of entomological interest which have presented themselves 

 to me daring the past year. I am happy to feel that my somewhat meagre remarks will 

 be well supplemented by those gentlemen who are to follow me with addresses to night. 



Mr. Fletcher moved a vote of thanks to the President for his admirable and enter- 

 taining address, and in doing so spoke of the increasing interest amongst farmers in the 

 practical application of economic entomology for the prevention of insect injury. The 

 Eye-spotted bud-moth had been prevalent over a very large area in North America this 

 year, extending through Canada from the Maritime provinces to western Ontario. There 

 were still varying opinions as to the manner in which the insect passed the winter. The 

 peculiar flattened eggs are laid in July, and Dr. Lintner had reared one almost to its full 

 size before the end of August. Prof. Fernald stated that he had bred them and that they 

 passed the winter amongst the fallen leaves. He himself had found larvae in New 



