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" Food, Feeders, and Fed," by Rev^. Thomas W. Fyles, F.L.S., South Quebec. 



" An Attack of Ephestia interpunctella," by H. A. Stevenson, London. 



" The Economic Value of Parasitism," by F. M. Webster. 



"The Reappearance of Pieris Protodice Boisd." by J. Alston Moffat, London, Ont. 



"Remarks on the Structure of the Undeveloped Wings of the Saturniidse," by J. 

 Alston Moffat. 



" Bordeaux Mixture as a Deterrent Against the Flea Beetles," by L. R. Jones, 

 Burlington, Vermont. 



" The Gypsy Moth," by James Fletcher, Ottawa. 



' The San Jose Scale," by James Fletcher, Ottawa. 



"Injurious Fruit Insects of the Year 1894," by James Fletcher, Ottawa. 



The twenty-fifth annual report, issued by the Society, contains portraits of Professor 

 William Saunders, F.R S.C , President of the Society from 1875 to 1886, and Augustus 

 Radcliffe Grote, A.M., one of the Society's honorary members, and it is also illustrated 

 with sixty figures of insects. 



Besides the President's address and the papers above-mentioned, the report 

 contains . — 



The minutes of the meeting. 



The Report of the Librarian and Curator, Mr. J. Alston Moff'at. 



The Report of the Montreal Branch, presented by Mr. H. H. Lyman, President, and 

 signed by Mr. A. F. Winn, Secretary. 



The Report of the Geological Section, presented by Dr. S. Woolverton, Vice-Ohairman. 



The Report of the Botanical Section, presented by Mr. W. F. McClement, Secretary. 



The Report of the Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada. 



A very valuable abstract of the proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, supplied by Mr. L. O. Howard, Eatomologist of 

 the Department of Agriculture, Washington, and Mr. 0. L Marlatt, Secretary of the 

 meeting; and a number of interesting notices, critical, biographical, etc. 



This report is distributed " not only to our owq members, but to every member of 

 the Fruit Growers' Association, to members of Parliament, the Mechanics' Institutes, etc., 

 making an issue of 6,000 copies, (W. H. Harrington, Canadian Entomologist, vol. 

 XXVI., p. 2.) 



The Society's library now numbers 1,361 volumes — seventy-seven having been added 

 in the course of the year. 



Important additions have been made to the Society's collections of insects. In its 

 cabinets may now be seen representatives of 1,077 species duly classified and named. 



The Society is fortunate in retaining the services of Mr. J. Alston Moff"at as Librarian 

 and Curator. By his methodical habits, his manual skill in mounting specimens, and his 

 extensive knowledge of the lepidoptera, Mr. Moff'at is peculiarly fitted for the position 

 he holds. 



During the year the various sections of the Society have held field days at St. 

 Mary's, Dorchester, Kilworth, Byron, Komoka, Kettle Point (Lake Huron), Ilderton, 

 Thedford, Beechville, Woodstock, Mud Lake and other places. The value from an 

 educational point of view of such expeditions in a neighborhood that possesses such experi- 

 enced scientific guides and instructors as Messrs. W. E. Saunders, J. M. Denton, J. A. 

 Balk will, J. W. Dearness, J. H, Bjwman, Dr. S. Wolverton, R. W. Rennie, all long 

 connected with the Society, besides younger and enthusiastic men, is beyond estimation. 



