PROCEEDINGS FOR 1895 XLVII 
Accordingly, we find that at the thirty-second annual meeting of 
our society the council was able to congratulate the members upon “the 
steady increase in numbers which continued to take place, and the hearty 
interest that was maintained in the various departments of the society's 
work.” 
The headquarters of the association are in London, the chief town of 
one of the most important agricultural and horticultural sections of 
Ontario, and a fitting centre for a society which is aided by the Ontario 
government, and intended to promulgate practical information amongst 
the cultivators of the soil, as well as to foster scientific research. The 
governmental grant made to the society annually is $1,000. 
That the society is doing the work expected from it, and doing it 
well, may be proved on sufficient testimony. Thus, Mr. L. O. Howard. 
chief entomologist of the department of agriculture, Washington, says of 
it: * The society has conscientiously complied with the conditions of the 
grant. Its reports. published annually, have greatly increased in size 
and in the general interest of their contents. They have contained much 
matter of economic value as well as of educational interest.” And the 
editor of an English magazine speaks of the report last issued as one of 
more interest to him than all others received from America.! 
Doubtless the society with a larger grant could accomplish more 
good. 
The meeting to which I have referred was held on the 7th and 8th 
days of November last. The value of the addresses given and of the 
papers read, and the beauty and rarity of the specimens exhibited on 
this occasion, were fully appreciated by those who were privileged to 
attend. The president’s address was particularly valuable as an instrue- 
tive sketch, historical and geographical, of the society and its work. It 
was learned from it that the society has observers and correspondents, 
from east to west, throughout this vast Dominion—from St. John, N.B,. 
and Halifax, N.S., to Esquimalt, in British Columbia, and Masset, in 
Queen Charlotte Islands. A very valuable paper on the Rhopalocera of 
the eastern provinces of Canada was read on this occasion by the Rey. 
Dr. Bethune. editor of * The Canadian Entomologist.” It gave a com- 
plete list of species and the names of the places in which each local kind 
has been taken, with, as far as known, the food-plants of the different 
kinds. The titles of the other papers read at the meeting are as follows : 
* Insects collected in Bermuda during the Winter of 1894,” by Gamble 
Geddes, Toronto. 
‘Common Names for Butterflies—Shall we have Them ?” by H. H. 
Lyman, Montreal. 
“The Pitcher Plant Moth,” by James Fletcher, Ottawa. 

1** Entomological Record,” August 15, 1894, 
