1918 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 15 



The following officers were elected for the year 1917-1918: — 



Honorary President Dr. A. H. McKay, Halifax. 



President L, A. De Wolfe, Truro. 



Vice-President G. E. Sanders, Annapolis. 



Secretary-Treasxcrer W. H. Brittain, Truro. 



Assistant Secretary-Treasurer .. .'SI. C Allen, Truro. 



W. H, Brittain, Sec.-Treas. 



EEPOET OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO TO THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA, 1916-1917. 



Francis J. A. Morris, Peterborough. 



I have the honour to present a report of the Entomological Society of Ontaric 

 for the year 1916-1917. 



The monthly issues of the " Canadian Entomologist " maintain the high 

 standard and the wide range of interest that were noted last year. Well-illustrated, 

 descriptive articles of great importance to specialists in various orders of insects 

 have appeared in every number; several most interesting contributions to insect 

 life-histories have also been made, as -well as observations on insect distribution; 

 among these we would mention papers by Dr. Walker, the editor, on the Dragon- 

 flies of Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland; an article on "Lake 

 Shore Insect Drift," by James G. Needham, of Cornell, and one on " Beetles of 

 the West Coast of Florida," by W. S. Blatchley, of Indianapolis. 



The monthly series of articles on " Popular and Practical Entomology " has 

 proved a great success and several papers of exceptional interest have appeared 

 during the year, notably, " From the Editor's Office Chair," by Prof. R. P. Dov/. 

 of the Brooklyn Entomological Society; "Collecting Notes on Beetles in Maine," 

 by C. A. Frost, of Framingham, Mass. ; " The Control of Ants," by Arthur Gibson, 

 of Ottawa ; " The Plum Curculio," by Lawson Caesar, of Guelph ; and, " Notes 

 on the Black Apple Leaf-hopper," by Messrs. Brittain and Saunders, Entomological 

 Division of the Department of Agriculture, Nova Scotia. 



We are very glad to be able to call attention, too, to some steps taken in a 

 much needed direction; I mean towards the co-ordination of all entomological 

 interests in the Dominion. For the first recent steps towards this end credit is 

 due, we believe, to our President, Mr. Winn, of Westmount, P.Q. More than a 

 year ago he suggested that members with available duplicates among their speci- 

 mens should make contributions to the public collections in Montreal and Guelph ; 

 this admirable suggestion has now been taken up at headquarters, and we note 

 in the December issue of the magazine a call from Dr. Gordon Hewitt to all 

 members of the, Society to join hands in building up tJie National Collection of 

 Insects at Ottawa. Again, at the last annual meeting, the President sugge'sted 

 that accounts should be published from time to time of all the more important 

 entomological collections in the Dominion, both private and public. In earnest 

 of this. Dr. Bethune, we note with extreme pleasure, ha^ written an article on the 

 Guelph collections, which appeared in the current issue of ]\Iay, 1917. 



Through lack of just such Dominion-wide co-operation, lovers of nature and 

 students of our -flora and fauna have been sadly handicappe 1 ''n the past. Strangely 

 enough botany is even worse of? than entomology in this respect, for not only is the 

 central orovernment of the science defective, but there is neither a Linnaean Societv 



