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from us owing to the tragic death of Mr. Tom Wilson, who lost his life on 

 March 6th in a fire that destroyed the Quaballa Hotel at Hope, B.C. He was 

 engaged at the time in his work of inspecting and improving the orchards on 

 the Indian reserves. He was President of the British Columbia Branch of our 

 Society in 1912 and always took a very active interest in its proceedings. He 

 possessed a remarkable knowledge of the trees, plants and insects of the Province, 

 and had made a large collection of the latter, which he presented to the Canadian 

 national cabinets in charge of the Entomological Division at Ottawa. An interest- 

 ing sketch of his life by Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, was published in the Canadian 

 Entomologist for August. We have also to record with much regret the sudden 

 death of Mr. A. H. Kilman, of Eidgeway, Ont., who had been a member of the 

 Society for a great many years. He formed a large and valuable collection of 

 Coleoptera which is now' in the possession of the Ontario Agricultural College 

 at Guelph. 



On Tuesday of this week another of our members has been removed from 

 us in the person of Mr. S. T. Wood, who died in Toronto after a few weeks' 

 illness, in the 57th year of his age. He was for many years on the editorial 

 staff of The Globe newspaper, and was widely known as the writter of numerous 

 sketches of the various aspects of nature at all seasons of the year. Many of 

 these were collected together and recently published in a beautifully illustrated 

 volume " The Eambles of a Canadian Naturalist." They form a series of charm- 

 ing papers on wild animal life, birds and insects, flowers, trees and shrubs, 

 observed in the neighborhood of Toronto in groves and ravines which the hand 

 of man has not yet disturbed. 



REPOET OF THE LIBEAEIAN. 



As there were no funds available for the purpose, no books were purchased 

 nor was any binding done during the year ending on October 31st, 1917; there 

 is very little, therefore, to report. Only nine bound volumes were placed upon 

 the shelves, making the total number on the register 2,271 ; the unbound material, 

 consisting of bulletins, reports, periodicals and pamphlets, continues to increase 

 and, it is hoped, may some day be put in proper shape and made available for 

 convenient reference. 



Charles J. S. Bethune, Librarian. 



REPOET OP THE CUEATOE. 



The collections of the Society during the past year have been carefully and 

 regularly examined, and precautions have been taken to prevent injury by 

 museum pests. 



Professor T. D. A. Oockerell, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Col., 

 very kindly sent a number of specimens of bees, and wrote that he had read with 

 great interest Dr. Bethune's account of the collections of our Society. He also 

 said that when the collection was exhibited in London at the Fisheries Exhibition 

 in 1882, he examined it very carefully and made many notes; it was the first 



