1918 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 35 



Our collection comprises the six following items:— 



1. Insects injurious to vegetables. • i 



2. " " fruit trees and shrubs. 



3. " " cereals. 



4. " " forest and ornamental trees. 



5. " - " animals, men, bouses. 



6. " " miscellaneous. 



General Woek. The office work necessitates quite a voluminous corres-- 

 pondence if one thinks that the service is a new departure and the question a 

 recent one, at least officially, in this country. Every day provides its share of 

 inquiries of all kinds, chiefly looking for information as to the remedies to be 

 applied in the case of some injurious insects. We see to it that the laws regulat- 

 ing our service are carefully observed and lose no opportunity of trying to 

 complete this regulation. We will submit, within a short time, to the approval 

 of the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, a project of by-law intended to regulate 

 the sale of fruit trees and shrubs. 



Here, I take the liberty to make a suggestion. I am of the opinion that 

 our work will never bear good results and many efforts will be lost if we do not 

 have, in the near future, a general by-law obliging every grower to spray his 

 cultures. This is practised in several countries, with success and the same regula- 

 tion could be enforced in Canada. In the fight against some species which are 

 largely spread, we enroll school boys and girls; the results obtained have proved 

 excellent and will be more so in future. Our Department relies on the Federal 

 Branch for the making of experiments and researches ; however, it does not fail to 

 do its share and efficiently co-operates with Ottawa. Finally, we are working 

 in close harmony with the Chief of the Horticultural Service, who does his utmost 

 to procure to the Horticultural Societies or to their members, the best kinds 

 of sprayers at fair conditions. The same method applies to insecticides. 



To conclude, I will say that we are now organizing in Quebec, an Ento- 

 mological Society which will soon be in operation. When this is an accomplished 

 fact, we will come and ask our affiliation to your society. I am sure in advance 

 that our request will be favorably received. The mother society which is yours, 

 could not refuse to adopt a new daughter without losing her distinctive character. 



But this shall not be and we will work in co-operation with you to enlarge 

 and make prosperous the Entomological Society of Canada. 



Prof, Lochhead: Mr. President, I should like to say a few words about 

 the good work done by Mr. Maheux. I have been in a position to see some of 

 his work, and also the work of the Department at Quebec. I knew his predecessor, 

 Abbe Huard, very well, and I was delighted when Mr. Maheux was appointed. 

 I should like to say a few words to those from the West regarding entomology 

 in Quebec — what is being done by our friends and by the Department at Quebec, 

 We have, I think, under-estimated the work done in Quebec in the past. I do 

 not know if you are aware that Canon Huard has written a very interesting 

 article for the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants Eeport, giving the 

 history of economic entomology in Quebec. He says that there is no province in 

 the Dominion where more entomological work has been done than in this Province. 

 He refers to the various reports that have been published by the Department; 

 to Provancher and his works; to different systematic treatises that have been 

 published since his time : to the various collections of insects, etc., in the Province, 

 of which he mentions tliat he knows personally of 20 collections in large seminaries; 

 but he left the impression that there are far more than this if we could only 



