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nor a botanical magazine of more than Provincial or merely local importance in 

 Canada, and the work done by champions like good old John Macoun and the late 

 James Fletcher has not been continued in recent years nor brought up to date for a 

 quarter of a century. 



Some exceptionally interesting publications, appearing during the year, have 

 been reviewed in the pages of the magazine : e.g., Vol. IV of the '^ Biologia Central!- 

 Americana," by Lord Walsingham, which will be eagerly hailed by micro-lepi- 

 dopterists all the world over ; Blatchley and Leng's work on the " Ehynchophora 

 of N. E. America,'"' a long felt desideratum among students of the beetles and a 

 worthy companion to the senior author's '' Coleoptera of Indiana " ; the " Life of 

 Inland Waters," by Needham and Lloyd, the Cornell Professors ; Dr. Van Duzee's 

 " Check-list of the Hemiptera of America, North of Mexico " ; J. M. Aldrich's 

 " Sarcophagidfe of North America," being the first Memoir of the Tliomas Say 

 Foundation of the Entomological Society of America; and some of the articles in a 

 supplement to the 47th annual report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, 

 Ottawa, 1915, called " Contributions to Canadian Biology," and comprising Dr. 

 Walker's " Odonata of Go-Home Bay," and W. A. Clemens's '" Ephemeridgo of the 

 Georgian Bay." 



Since your meeting of last May we have recorded with deep rtgret the loss of 

 several old friends as well as of one of the founders of our Society. In June 

 appeared the notice of Theodore Pergande's death, which occurred in March, 1916: 

 first appointed an assistant in Missouri to C. V. Riley, he was afterwards associated 

 for nearly forty years with the Washington Bureau of Entomology, and not in- 

 frequently contributed articles to our magazine. In the same issue was noticed the 

 death (also occurring in March) of Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, of the British Museum 

 of Natural History. He represented that Institution at the Society's Jubilee 

 meeting in Guelph, August, 1913, and all who were fortunate enough to make his 

 acquaintance remember the charm of his personality; his death at the early age of 

 thirty-two means a great loss to British Entomology. A few days after the Eoyal 

 Society's meeting last May occurred the death of John B'ckeiton Williams, of 

 Toronto, F.Z.S., an old and faithful member of our Association, a true lover of 

 luiture and a man of most modest and gentle disposition. Finally, on November 

 the 18th last, at Victoria, B.C., there passed away Edmund Baynes Eeed, in the 

 seventy-ninth year of his age. He was one of Ontario's pioneer entomoloofists, and 

 a member of the original group who founded our Society more than fifty-three years 

 ago. The very feeling tribute to his memory that appeared last February was from 

 the pen of his life-long friend, our revered emeritus editor, Dr. Bethune, who now 

 remains almost sole survivor of that little band of devotees. 



The Society's annual activities culminated very fittingly last November in a 

 grand two-day re-union at Guelph. The popular lecture wa^^ delivered by Dr. 

 L. 0. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, on the subject of 

 ''Insects as Disease-carriers." Eeports were presented at 1111*^ meeting from six 

 different districts of Ontario, as well as from the branches in Toronto, Ottawa, 

 Montreal. Quebec. Manitoba, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Visitors were 

 present from the length and breadth of the Dominion, and also from several of the 

 United State«. Nearly a score of papers were real at the meeting, and the com- 

 ments and discussions evoked by most of these, particularly by those of an econ- 

 omic character, bore eloquent testimony to the interest with which the proceedings 

 were followed throughout. Practically a verbatim account of this meeting, in- 

 cluding all the papers read, is now in the press and will shortly appear a^ the 

 Forty-seventh Annual Eeport of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



