ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Regret was expressed that no member had been able to represent the Society at the 

 annnal meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists held at Springfield, 

 Mass., in August last. Through the kindness of Mr. L. O. Howard a full account of the pro- 

 ceedings has been received, and an abstract will be found in subsequent pages of this 

 report. 



Mr. Lyman exhibited a handsome quarto volume containing beautifully colored plates 

 of the butterflies of Germany, which only cost, when delivered here, $4.59. It is entitled 

 " Die Schmetterlinge Mittel-Europas," by Mar Korb, and is published at Nuremburg, 

 Germany. 



A paper was next read by Mr. Lyman on Colias Interior, the consideration of 

 which was deferred to the following day. 



The hour of 6 o'clock having arrived the meeting adjourned. 



EVENING SESSION. 



In the evening the Society held a public meeting in the City Hall,which was attend- 

 ed by between fifty and sixty persons, for the most part members of the Society. The 

 chair was taken at 8 o'clock by his Worship, Mayor Little; on the platform were Professor 

 C. C. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, Rev. Dr. Bethune, Rev. T. W. 

 Fyles, Mr. Dearness, Mr. W. E. Saunders and Dr. Roome, M.P. The Mayor opened the 

 proceedings with the following remarks : 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — Our city has had the good fortune in recent years to be 

 many times selected as the meeting place of conventions of fraternal and other societies 

 and we are always glad to welcome them in our midst. To-night we have amongst us the 

 representatives of a society, which, though provincial or Dominion in its character, has 

 its headquarters in our own city and is therefore all the more welcome on that account. 

 I am sure, altliough there are not a very large number present to-night, you will make 

 up by your enthusiasm for whatever you may want in numbers. This Society has been 

 quietly doing a very valuable work in our country. I understand that the journal which 

 they publish is considered the most valuable work on entomology that is published on the 

 continent of America and it is also the oldest. It is all the more interesting to us, because 

 the Society was founded largely through the efiorts of Mr. Bethune, who is on the plat- 

 form to-night, and one of our own fellow citizens. Prof. Saunders, whom though at Ottawa, 

 we still look upon as a citizen and we are proud of him and his work.. I therefore say 

 this Society has a warm place in our hearts, because of its origin, and because it has 

 remained among us. I am sure those who have come out to-night will not regret it. 



Without any further remark I will call upon Prof. James of the Department of 

 Agriculture, Toronto, to address the meeting. (Applause) 



THE NEW AGRICULTURE. 



By Mr. C, C. James, Deputy Minister op Agriculture. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and members of the Entomological Society, I 

 believe it is somewhat of an innovation for the Ontario Entomological Society to hold an 

 open meeting, or as we sometimes say a popular meeting, in connection with its deliber- 

 ations. This, I take it, will have the efiect of bringing the Society more into sympathy 

 with the people, or rather of bringing the people more into sympathy with the work- 

 ings of the Society. As a rule we find that the best men do their work most quietly. 

 The men in this world who do the most advertising of themselves, who create the 

 greatest stir for the time being, are not always the most important men in the world. So 

 with regard to many of these societies, those who are doing their work the most quietly 

 are very frequently the ones that are doing the most important work for the community. 

 And the very fact that this Society for twenty-five years has been carrying on its work by 



