Febraary,'22] caesar: remarks 41 



the same ease as can some of you, go to the American meetings each 

 year and get the value of what is said there, and meet the men there 

 that we should like to meet. So this meeting has been a very great 

 treat indeed to us, not only in the way of the information gained, but 

 also in the social intercourse that we have had with each other. 



I cannot sit down without making a few remarks that I know any 

 man who might be taking my place here tonight would like to make. 

 That is in regard to the debt of gratitude that we owe to our entomolog- 

 ical friends across the line. It seems to me that we should have 

 been utterly lost during the last twenty years had we not been able 

 to go to them for the assistance that we needed. We have been few 

 in number until the last few years. Why, even at Ottawa there were 

 only about five entomologists when Dr. Hewitt came there. But 

 now I believe there are about fifty on the Ottawa branch. Until the 

 last few years we have had to send our specimens across the line to 

 have them identified, and I sometimes wonder at the patience that 

 Dr. Howard shows in taking the trouble to name those insects for us 

 and to give us the information on them that we desire. 



So we owe a great debt to the Washington Bureau, not only to Dr. 

 Howard himself but also to many of his assistants who have helped 

 in connection with these things. 



The debt that we owe to Dr. Comstock I cannot put into language. 

 There is not a man — at any rate in Canada — who has not been brought 

 up on Comstock's manual. (Applause) One of the things we are 

 looking forward to today is the New Manual which Dr. Comstock is 

 preparing. We don't want him to hurry with it but to take his own 

 time; and we know that what the book will contain will be just as 

 nearly right as it is possible to make it. 



Now, we should like very much to have as many of the entomologists 

 of the United States as can find opportunity to do so, attend from year 

 to year the meetings of the Entomological Society of Ontario. It is 

 not a provincial society at all. It is in name, but in reality it is a 

 Dominion society. We do not want you to come just to please us, 

 but we want you to come to enjoy our meetings and to discuss things 

 with us, just as we want to go back to your meetings and to get pleasure 

 and benefit from them. 



I often think that now that we are beginning in Canada to devote a 

 great deal more attention to entomology than we did in the past, that 

 we will be of some help to our frineds across the line, in that we shall 

 be able to give you data from different climatic conditions to what 

 you have over there; and so by cooperating together in the study of 

 insects, both countries are going to gain much more than either country 

 would alone. 



