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Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa. He and I had the pleasure recently of attendinf; 

 the meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists of North America, which was 

 held at Rochester, N. Y., on the 15th and 16th of August, and of meeting there a large- 

 number of the most eminent workei's in this branch of science. In England Miss- 

 Ormerod has continued her useful work and published last winter her fifteenth " Report 

 of Observations on Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests," in which she gave a 

 special account of the outbreak of caterpillars of the Diamond-back Moth {PiiUella 

 cruciferarum, Zeller) over large areas in Great Britain, and devoted a chapter to the use 

 of Paris Green as an insecticide. It is satisfactory to learn that this useful agent is 

 gradually coming into use in England and that the prejudices against its employment are 

 being removed. In India the Trustees of the Indian Museum at Calcutta are issuing a 

 serial publication on Economical Entomology, entitled Indian Museum Notes, which is 

 now in its second volume ; many of the parts are beautifully illustrated, among which we 

 may specially mention an account of "The Wild Silk Insects of India," by Mr. Cotes, 

 with fourteen very handsome plates. 



One of the most useful publications of the year is undoubtedly a work by Dr. C. V. 

 Riley, " Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects," puV)lished by the Smithsonian 

 Institution at Washington. In consists of nearly 150 pages and is illustrated by nearly 

 as many wood cuts, most of them specially prepared for the work. The directions and 

 instructions are most complete and will be found invaluable by beginners, and full of 

 useful hints and ideas for those who are experienced in collecting. Every entomologist 

 is frequently appealed to by beginners to recommend them some book which will teach 

 them how to collec* and preserve specimens and how to make a start in the study of the 

 science ; hitherto one has be^n at a loss for a manual which will meet such cases, but 

 now the want is admirably filled. In time we may hope that this work will be followed 

 by a manual of North American insects, which will perform the same service for 

 Entomology that Dr. Gray's works have done for Botany. We are glad to learn that a 

 step is being taken in this direction by Mr. S. H. Scu.lder, who is now preparing for 

 publication a book on butterflies for boys. The author's name is a sufficient warrant 

 that it will be all that one can desire. 



Since our last annual meeting we have had to deplore the loss of two of our members. 

 On the 18th of March Mr. F. B. Caulfi^ld died at Montreal. Since 1887 he has baea a 

 frequent contributor to the annual reports of the Society and also wrote occasional papers 

 iov th.e Canadian Entomologist; he was also a very energetic member of the Montreal 

 branch and did much to maintain its activity and usefulness. He was a careful and 

 diligent collector and a keen observer. His loss is deeply felt by his associates as well as 

 his family. We sincerely sympathize with his widow and children in their bereavement. 



On the 23rd of April one of our most noted Canadian entomologists departed this 

 life. The Abbe L^on Provancher died at Cap Rouge near Quebec, in the 72nd year of 

 his age. His earliest publications were a treitise on Botany in 1858 and a Flora of Canada 

 in 1862. He soon afterwards turned his attention to Entomology, and after publishing a 

 list of the Coleoptera taken at Portneuf, he began in 1874 the publication of his 

 Faune Entomologique du Canada, the third volume of which was not comp'eted till 1890. 

 For more than twenty years also he published his well known monthly magazine 

 Le Naturaliste Canadien, which was only discontinued last year. He was* a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society of Canada and a member of many other scientific associations. His 

 name will long stand out prominently in the records of science as one of the ablest and 

 most diligent savants that our French compatriots of the Province of Quebec have 

 produced. 



I feel that I have now sufficiently trespassed upon your time and attention and beg 

 to thank you very heartily for the kind hearing that you have given me. 



Mr. Fletcher moved a vote of thanks to the President for his interesting and 

 valuable address, and in doing so remarked upon the prevalence of the Zebra caterpillar 

 {Mamestra picta), the destruction of the Tomato sphinx and the Green sphinx of the grapi- 

 vine (Darapsa myron) by parasites, and the rapid spread of the Horn- fly in Ontario and 

 Western Quebec. 



