PROCEEDINGS FOR 1900 XXXI 
There being no further business before the meeting, the President 
declared the nineteenth general session of the Royal Society closed, and 
the Society accordingly adjourned sine die. 
EVENING SESSION. (May 31st.) 
A public meeting was held in the Assembly Hall at 8 o’clock p.m., 
when Dr. Howard, the eminent entomologist, of Washington, D.C., 
delivered a most interesting lecture on “ Insect Life.” A large audience 
was present, and His Excelleney the Governor-General, Honorary Presi- 
dent, introduced the lecturer with a few remarks, On the conclusion of 
the lecture, the Hon. Mr. Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, moved, in 
felicitous terms, a vote of thanks, which was appropriately seconded by 
Dr. Fletcher, the Dominion Entomologist. 
