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of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, D.C., and Professor Parrott, Geneva, 

 N.Y. A large number of papers of interest and importance were read and 

 discussed, of Avhich the following is a list : " The Naturalist in the City," by the 

 Rev. Dr. T. W. Fyles ; " Dusting Fruit-trees and Grapes for the Control of Biting 

 Insects and Diseases,'^ by Prof. L. Caesar ; " General Notes on Aphids which 

 Occur on Apple-trees," by Mr. W. A. Eoss ; " Further Experiments with the Green 

 Apple Bug," by Prof. W. H. Brittain ; " Notes on Physonota unipuncta, the Sun- 

 flower Tortoise-beetle," by Mr. A. F. Winn ; " Preliminary Notes on the use of 

 Repellents for Horn-flies and Stable-flies on Cattle," by Mr. A. W. Baker ; " The 

 Wood of Desire," by Mr. F. J. A. Morris; "Insects as Material for Studies in 

 Heredity," by Prof. W. Lochhead ; " The Migratory Tendency in Dragonflies," by 

 Prof. E. M. Walker; "The History of the Forest Tent-Caterpillar and Fall Web- 

 worm in North America," by Mr. A. B. Baird ; " Three Important Greenhouse 

 Pests recently introduced into Canada," by Mr. A. Gibson ; " Camp Hygiene," 

 by Capt. G. J. Spencer ; " Experiments in the Control of the Apple Maggot," 

 by Prof. W. H. Brittain ; " Summary of Experiments on the Control of Locusts 

 by Coccobacillus acridiorum d'Herelle," by Messrs. E, M. du Porte and J. 

 Vanderleck ; " Three Shade-tree Insects," by Mr. J. M. Swaine ; " Notes on 

 Some Insects of the Season," by Prof. L. Caesar ; and " Parasites of the Larch 

 Saw-fly," by Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt. 



Tile Canadian Entomologist, the official organ of the Society, has been 

 regularly issued each month; the 48th volume was completed in December, 1916. 

 It contained 437 pages and was illustrated with 13 full-page plates and 21 

 original figures in the text. The contributors of papers numbered 55 and included 

 writers in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta, fourteen of the 

 United States, and London, England. The series of interesting and instructive 

 papers on " Popular and Practical Entomology " was continued each month. 

 During the year, 155 new species, subspecies and varieties, and 42 new genera 

 were described, a much larger number than usual. These systematic and des- 

 criptive papers render the magazine indispensable to workers in various fields 

 of scientific entomology and cause a constant application for back numbers and 

 volumes. 



The attendance of students at military drill during the afternoons when the 

 daily lectures were over prevented most of the members of the society in Guelph 

 from coming to meetings; few, therefore, were held during 1916-17, and those 

 were mostly of a business character, at which thirty new members were elected. 

 The following papers, however were read during the vear: 



" Some Ontario Mosquitoes," by Eric Hearle. 



''The Colorado Potato Beetle." by A. W. Guild. 



"Lady-bird beetles," by R. M. Alton. 



Year by year it becomes our sad duty to record the loss and pay tribute to 

 the memory of departed members of our Society. On the 18th of November, 

 1916, Mr. Edmund Baynes Reed died at Victoria, B.C., after a long illness. He 

 was one of the original members of the Society when it was formed in 1863, 

 and for twenty-five years filled various offices with great industry and enthusiasm. 

 He was largely instrumental in establishing our library and assisted greatly in 

 building up the Society's collections of Canadian insects. His removal to British 

 Columbia in 1890 was a distinct loss to the Society, though he continued to take 

 great interest in its welfare. An appreciative obituary notice by his lifelonsr 

 friend. Dr. Bethune, was published in the February, 1917. number of the Canadian 

 EnfomohgiM. Another of our British Columbian members has been removed 



