Report of the Microscopical Section. 



Of the Entomological Society was presented and read by Mr. Foote, as follows : 

 As no report of the meetings since organisation has been made to the Society, I have much pleasure 

 in presenting the following : — 



Upon March 15th, of last year (1890) a meeting was held in these rooms to consider the advisability 

 of organizing a microscopical section. Prof. Bowman was elected chairman jjro tcm. The meeting was 

 called at 8 o'clock. Those present, Messrs. Bowman_, Dearness, Arnott, Stevenson, Foote, Magee, Wilson, 

 and Drs. Hodge, Gardner, Arnott and Hotson, all expressed their opinion in favour of the movement, and 

 the section was fully organized, appointing Mr. Denton permanent chairman. Meeting.^ were held regu- 

 larly upon the second and fourth Friday of each month, from that time till postponement at last general 

 meeting, held in April, and opened again upon Friday, Oct. 9th. 

 The meetings and attendance are as follows : 



12 regular meetings ; 4 open, (3 for the public, and one for the benefit of the ladies of Hellmuth Col- 

 lege). — Total, 16 meetings and one outing. Average attendance of members, 10. 



The following are some of the subjects taken up. For a fuller report I refer you to the minute 

 book : — 



Manipulation of the Microscope "\ 



Angular Aperture \ I -o c -o 



Chromatic and Spherical Aberration. f ^''^^- -^^owman . 



Test objects— Pleurosigma, Heliopelta. J 

 Mounting and Mounting-media— Mr. Burkholder. Fungi— Mr. J. Deabness. 



Examination of Algae, Spyrogyra, Draparnaldia, ) n«- ,, 



Oscillatoria ; A Sexual division of Spyrogyra. / ^'■- Burkholdkr. 



Black Knot-Mr. J. Dearness. Fertilisation and Growth of Ferns \ ^ j j)^^-^^^^^_ 



Structure oi an Exogen. J ^^■"- ^i^anniLa^. 



Examination of the results of an outing to the ponds — Daphnia, Cyclops— an unknown larva found in 

 the pitchers of the pitcher plant. Drawings were taken for future reference. 



London, Nov. 25, 1891 . 



REPORT FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO TO THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



BY THE REV. THOMAS W. FYLES, F. L. S., DELEGATE. 



Canadian Entomology i:^ the outgrowth of the last thirty years, and in its develop- 

 ment the Entomological Society of Outaiio has played no unimportant part. 



The fir.st movement towards the formation of this Society was made in 1862 ; and at 

 that, time according to the statement of the naturalist Grote (19th Report of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario, p. 62), there were probably not one hundred species of Lepidop- 

 tera named and determined in any collection on this continent. The Society was fully 

 organized on the 16th of April, 1863. la August of 1868 it commenced the publication 

 of its monthly organ, the Canadian Entomologist, which ante-dated by one month the 

 Aimricaa Entomologist, edited by Walsh and Riley. In 1871 the Society was duly 

 incorporated, and since then, under the fostering care of the Ontario Government, it has 

 maintained its important position as one of the leading Eatomoiogical societies on the 

 continent of America. 



One of the conditions of the Act for its incorporation, was, that it should present to 

 the Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, an annual report of its proceeding.?. 

 Twenty-one such reports have now been issued, the whole embodying a vast amount of 

 valuable entomological information. 



The report for 1890 contains an account of the proceedings at the annual meeting 

 of the Society, the address of the president, and the various reports and papers read on 

 that occasion. It contains also, full and interesting notes of the proceedings at the 

 Indianapolis meeting of the Eatomoiogical Club of the American Association for the 

 advancement of Science, and of the American Association of Economic Entomologists 

 held at Champaign, Illinoi.s. These notes were jiresented by Mr. Fletcher, who had 

 attended the meetings of the associations as the Society's representative. They are followed 

 in the report by various original papers, thought to be of interest both to entomologists 



