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of the Experimental Farms of the Dominion, Mr. J. Dearness, one of the 
special commissioners appointed by the Ontario Government to investi- 
gate the ravages of the Scale in this province, Mr. G. E. Fisher, Official 
Inspector, Professor Lochhead of the Ontario Agricultural College at 
Guelph, and Professor Webster of the Ohio State Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station. The proceedings at the conference are published in full 
in the 30th annual report of the Society, which was presented to the 
Legislature of Ontario at the opening of its session. 
The report also contains a number of valuable and interesting papers 
and is illustrated with 66 wood-cuts, many of them drawn specially for 
the purpose, a portrait of Mr. Henry H. Lyman, the retiring President, 
and a plate representing the structure of a butterfly’s wing. 
Among the papers may be mentioned the following :— 
“ The President’s Annual Address,” by Mr. Henry H. Lyman, Mont- 
real, in which the formation of an Entomological Union for the authori- 
tative settlement of questions of nomenclature especially, was strongly 
advocated; an account was given of the importance of accurate descrip- 
tions of larve and the difficulties to be surmounted in making them; 
a short review was made of the principal work of the year in both 
economic and systematic entomology, and some account of recent publi- 
cations was given. 
“One Hundred Years of American Entomology,” “The Native 
Home of the San José Scale,” and “ Some Notes on the Larval Habits 
of the Gray Hair-streak Butterfly,’ by Prof. F. M. Webster. 
“Notes on Some Insects on Coniferous Shade-trees,” “ Injurious 
Insects of the Orchard, Garden and Farm in 1899,” and “ Nature-study 
Lessons on the Cabbage Butterfly,” by Prof. W. Lochhead, Guelph. 
“Spiders,” by the Rev. Dr. Fyles, South Quebec. “The Wing- 
structure of a Butterfly,” and “ Remarks upon Some Cuban Insects,” 
by Mr. J. Alston Moffat, London. 
“ Fatal Bite of an Insect,” and “Some Observations of a Bumble- 
bees’ Nest,” by Rev. Dr. Bethune, London. 
“Tnjurious Insects in Ontario During 1899,” by Dr. Fletcher, 
Ottawa. ‘ 
“The Electric Light as an Attraction to Moths,” by Mr. A. Gibson, 
Ottawa. 
“ Asparagus Beetles,” by Mr. W. N. Hutt, Southend. 
The volume contains the reports on the work of the preceding year 
by the different officers of the Society, the Geological and Microscopical 
Sections at London, and the flourishing branches in Montreal, Quebec and 
Toronto. There are also valuable “ Notes on the Insects of the Year,” 
by the directors, Mesers. Harrington, Evans and Gibson, in their respec- 
