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of the Society, Mr. A. F. Winn, Westmount, P.Q., occupied the chair. There 

 was a very satisfactory attendance of members and visitors; among the latter 

 were Messrs. A. F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Mass., and J. H. Emerton, 

 Boston; Drs. T. J. Headlee, New Brunswick, N.J., and W. C. O'Kane, Durham, 

 N.H. A large number of papers of interest and importance were read and dis- 

 cussed, of which the following is a list. Eeports on Insects of the year in the 

 various Divisions of the Province by the Directors, Messrs. Gibson, Cosens, Morris, 

 Noble and Eoss; " Further Notes on the Imported Onion Maggot and its Control," 

 by Mr. Arthur Gibson ; " The Entomological Service of Quebec," by Mr. Georges 

 Maheux ; " Some Important Insects of the Season," by Prof. Caesar ; " The Apple 

 and Thorn Skeletonizer," by Dr. E, P. Felt ; " Some Notodontian Larvae," by 

 Dr. J. A. Corcoran ; " The Problem of Mosquito Control," by Dr. T. J. Headlee ; 

 " The Black Cherry Aphis," by Mr. W. A. Ross ; " A Comedy of Errors," by 

 Mr. F. J. A. Morris ; " Transcanadian Spiders, " by Mr. J. H. Emerton ; " A 

 Further Report on the Value of Dusting vs. Spraying," by Prof. L. Caesar ; 

 " Notes on the Ecology of Insects," by Prof. W. Lochhead ; " Effects of Stable 

 and Horn-fly Attacks on Milk Production," by Mr. A. W. Baker; "Two Unusual 

 Garden Pests in Nova Scotia," by Prof. W. H. Brittain ; " The Ento- 

 mological Record," by Mr. Arthur Gibson. These papers have been published 

 in the Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Society which was issued by the Ontario 

 Department of Agriculture in October last. The following papers were also read 

 but not submitted for publication : " Black Flies in the Dixville Notch," by Dr. 

 W. C. O'Kane; "The Nervous System of Caterpillars and its Relation to Classi- 

 fication," by Mr. J. M. Swaine ; " Habits, Behaviour and Tropisms of Insects," by 

 Dr. Arthur Willey. By the courtesy of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, were 

 exhibited motion pictures of " Field and Parasite Work Against the Gypsy and 

 Brown-tail Moths," through Mr. A. F. Burgess and Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, and 

 of " Orchard Spraying in Nova Scotia," by Prof. W. H. Brittain. A symposium 

 was held at the close of the evening session on the question of how Canadian 

 Entomologists can help to increase food production, led by Dr. Hewitt and parti- 

 cipated in by many of the members. 



The Canadian Entomologist, the official organ of the Society, has been regu- 

 larly issued each month. The fiftieth annual volume will be completed by the 

 issue of the forthcoming December number. The forty-ninth volume, published 

 during 1917 contained 440 pages, illustrated by 21 full page plates and 41 figures 

 in the text. The contributors to its pages numbered 64 and included writers in 

 Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, and also 

 in eighteen of the United States. The series of papers on " Popular and Practical 

 Entomology " was continued each month and provided interesting and instructive 

 information for the general reader. In the systematic papers there were described 

 four new genera, 137 new species and 10 new sub-species or varieties. As a 

 result of the publication from year to year of a large number of articles on 

 descriptive and systematic entomology, there is a constant demand for back numbers 

 and volumes. 



Twenty-five new members have been added to the rolls of the Society. 



It is with deep regret that the Council records the removal by death of one 

 of our oldest and most distinguished members, Mr. William Hague Harrington, 

 who died at his home in Ottawa on the 13th of last March in the 66th year of 

 his age. He was well-known to Entomologists throughout North America by his 

 systematic work in the order Hymenoptera, and was justly regarded as our best 



