XX VIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
by the County Council to replace the old. Owing to the circumstance 
just mentioned, few meetings were held during the year, and these chiefly 
of a business character. 
The Talbot settlement was formally begun by Colonel Talbot at 
Port Talbot on 21st May, 1803. At the instance of Judge Ermatinger, 
this Society has taken steps towards the celebration in 1903 of the cen- 
tennial of a day so important in the history of Southwestern Ontario. 
The County and City Councils have appointed committees to co-operate 
with the committee appointed by the Society, and when the movement 
takes definite shape the friendly co-operation of your body and affiliated 
societies will be hoped for. At one of the recent meetings of the Society 
an interesting paper was read by Mr. J. H. Coyne, President of the On- 
tario Historical Society on Colonel Talbot’s visit in 1801 to a place called 
by him Skittiewaabaa, which appears to have been in the Township of 
Yarmouth in this county, probably in or near the present village of Port 
Stanley. 
The following are the officers of the Society :— 
President—James A. Bell. 
Vice-Presidents—W. B. Waterbury, Mrs. A. Burns. 
Editor—Judge Ermatinger. 
Secretary-Treasurer—Miss Frances McCartney. 
Council—James H. Coyne, Kenneth W. McKay, W. Atkin, Judge 
Hughes, E. H. Caughell, W. H. Murch, Miss Ermatinger. 
The number of members has increased considerably during the year, 
and the membership now includes many ladies. A number of articles of 
historic interest have been added to the museum. 
XV.—From The Entomological Society of Ontario, through the 
Rey. C. J. 8. Betauns, D.C.L. 
During the year that has gone by since our last report to the Royal 
Society, the Entomological Society of Ontario has pursued the even 
tenor of its way and continued its useful and scientific work. There 
are no striking events to record, but much has been done of permanent 
value and additions have been made to the general store of the knowledge 
of insects and their ways. 
The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Society was held in October 
last at its headquarters in London, and was especially noteworthy for the 
conference that was held on the important subject of the San José Scale. 
Those who took the principal part in it were Prof. James, Deputy Min- 
ister of Agriculture for Ontario, Dr. Fletcher, Entomologist and Botanist 
