and to the general public. The titles to these are : " Kitchen Garden Pests and How 

 to Deal with Them " ; " An Outbreak of the Army Worm in Maryland " ; " Tortoise 

 Beetles"; " Quebec Representatives of the Genus /'^^sia " ; "Origin and Perpetuation 

 of Arctic Forms"; "Fuller's Pi,ose Beetle"; " Hymenoptera Parasitica"; "Insects 

 Injurious to the Elm " ; " The Entomology of Shakespeare " ; and " Experiments for the 

 Destruction of Chinch Bugs." The rest of the leport is made up with selections, and 

 notices and critiques of the most important entomological publications that had apoeared 

 in the course of the year. 



The Canadian Entomohgist has reached its twenty-third volume. It is still under 

 the able management of the Rev. Dr. Bethume, D.G.L. It has now been permanently 

 enlarged to twenty-four pages, and " continues to receive contributions from all the most 

 eminent entomologists in North America, and to circulate in all parts of the world." (■21st 

 report, introductory letter from the Secretary to the Honorable the Minister of Agri- 

 culture). In the volume for 1890, articles appear from thirty-five contributors who are 

 pursuing their investigations in various parts of British North America, the United States 

 of America, Great Britain, British India and Germany. No less than seventeen new 

 species of insects are described in its pages. 



The constitution of the Society provides for the formation of branch associations ; 

 and in Montreal an important branch has flourished for a length of time. It was chiefly 

 through the instrumentality of Mi-. F. B. Caul field, that this branch was called into 

 existence ; and it still enjoys the benefit of his services as vice-president. Under the 

 presidency of Mr. H. H. Lyman, the branch is raising up a number of young and enthusi- 

 astic entomologists who give promise of attaining eminence in their favourite pursuit. 

 At its monthly meetings original papertj have been read, and descriptions of several species 

 of beetles discovered by Mr. J. F. Hansen, one of its members, have been given. The 

 secretary of the branch is Mr. A. F. Winn. 



The scheme for the formation of sections, which was put into operation last May, 

 continues to work admirably. The sections formed in London, the head-quarters of the 

 Society, are four : — the Botanical, the Ornithologica], the Geological and the Microscopical, 

 all of which are doing good work. The value of all these sections to the parent society 

 will be readily perceived : of the Botanical, in determining the food plants of insects, and 

 in tracing insect ravages and their efiects ; of the Ornithological, in discovering what insecti- 

 vorous birds act as checks upon the undue increase of particular kinds of insects, and in 

 answering such inquiries as that which called forth a volume from the United States 

 Agricultural department — whether the English sparrow (which was said to destroy large 

 numbers of injurious larvte) was of benefit to the community or not ; of the Geological, 

 in showing what kinds of soils are favourable to the growth of certain food plants, and 

 thus indicating the localities for particular insects, and also in tracing the impressions left 

 by extinct species in various Geological formations ; and the Microscopical, in noting the 

 structural peculiarities of insects, and in aiding to classify minute forms. 



The Botanical section numbers 16 members. Its chairman is Mr. J. Dearness ; vice- 

 chairman. Professor Bowman, and secretary. Dr. S. Carson. Meetings for study and 

 mutual assi-stance are held by it every Saturday evening, from Ist of May, until 1st of 

 October. A number of excursions have been carried out, and some new species added to 

 the already well examined flora of the environs of London. Two new mosses have been 

 discovered by Mr. Dearness, and a surprisingly large number of new fungi — more than 

 60 now named, and some yet unnamed. These fungi are for the most part new not to 

 Canada only, but also to the whole of America. 



The Ornithological section also is flourishing. It is engaged in gathering up facts 

 of seneral import to ornithology, and is commencing a systematic list of the breeding- 

 birds of Middlesex county to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society. Its 

 chairman is Mr. ^Villiam Saunders, and its secretary, Mr. N. O. Balkwell. 



The Geological section has nine members. Dr. S. Wolverton being chaii-man, Mr. 

 T. Green vice-chairman, and Mr. J. L. Goodburne, secretary. The members have made 

 regular weekly excursions, and the district around London has been well worked by them, 



