102 ENTOMOLOGCCAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



We have, then, done good work. We liave accomplished results which have added 

 greatly to the productive wealth of the world. We have Justified our existence as a 

 class. We are now better equipped for the prosecution of our work than ever before,, 

 and it may conhdently be expected that the results of the closing years of the century will 

 iirtuiy fix the importance of economic entomology, in the minds of all thinking men oi 

 all countries. 



On motion of Dr. Lintnei-, tl\8 thanks of the society wore unanimously extended to 

 the president for the admirable address presentf.d. 



A letter from the secretary, Mr. ( I llette, announced that he would be unable to 

 attend the meeting. 



The following active members were elected : 



F. C. Test, 0. E. Cliamblies and H. C. Hublard, q,H of the Department of Asricul-- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. ; Victor H. Lowe and F. A. Sirrine, of Jamaico, N. Y. ; and F. 

 W. Eaine, of Morgantown, W. Va. 



The following per.sons were elected to foreign membership : 



AValter W. Froggatt, Technological Museum, Sydney, N S. \\\ 



Charles Whitehead, Banning House, Maidstone, Kent, England, 



Geo. H. Carpenter, Science and Art ]\luseum, Dublin, Ireland. 



Dr. Geza Horvath, IVliuistry of Agricullnre, Buda Pesth, Austria. 



Prof. A. Targioni-Tozzetti, R. Staz. d. Entom. Agric, Firenze, Italy. 



Prof. A. Giard, 14 Rue Stanisla.s, Paris, France. 



M. J. Danysz, Laboratnire de Parasitologic, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France. 



Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, Wageningen, Netherlands. 



Mr. Sven Lampa, Entomologist, Dep't, Agric, Stockholm, Sweden. 



Dr. N. Oholodkowbky, Institut Forestier, St. Petersburg, Russia. 



Dr. K. Lindemann, Landwirthschaftliche Akademie, Moscow, Itussia. 



Prof. A. Portschinsky, Bur. Entom., Ministrre de I'Agriculture, St. Petersburg., 



Russia. 

 Mr. E. C Reed, Banos de los CaiKjucnos, Chile. 



Mr. J. B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J., presented the following paper : 



BISULPIIIDF OF CARBON AS AN INSECTICIDE. 



Bv J. I>. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Bisulphide of carbon as an insecticide of very limited range has been known for 

 many years; but for ordinary field crops it has not been in general use. In the 1893 

 meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists, Prof, Garman mentioned that he 

 had used it in the garden, covering melon vines with a tub and allowing a quantity of 

 the bisulphide to evapoiate, destroying thereby the aphides infesting the vines. I'his 

 interested me greatly, because the melon louse, (Aphis cucunteris, Forbes,) is at times a 

 most destructive pest in parts of New' York and New Jersey, and one of the most diffi- 

 cult to deal with, owing to the fact that the leaves are close to the ground and that they 

 curl as soon as seriously atlected, making it simply impossible to reach them all, even 

 with an underspray nozzle. A lot of pot-grown plants becoming badly infested with 

 aphides in the botanical laboratory, I made a series of experiments, which were not 

 recorded, but which determined that the liquid evaporated slowly, that it killed plant- 

 lice very readily, and that it killed plants with equal facility if used in any large 

 quantity. The appearance of the lice on cantaloupe and citron melons in New Jersey gave 

 me an op})ortunity of making experiments, and Mr. Howard G. Taylor, of Riverton, N. 

 J., kindly permitted me to kill as many hills as might be necessary to carry them on. 1 

 procured a dozen wooden bowls thirteen inches in diameter and six inches deep, inside 

 measurement, and a series of small, graduated tumblers, in which " 1 teaspoonful " and 



