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farmers of Great Britain. Speaking of Miss Ormerod, in his annual 
address as president of the Association of Economic Entomologists, Mr. 
Howard says : “She has shown herself ingenious, careful and receptive 
to a degree, and at the same time possessed of an enthusiasm and an 
unlimited perseverance which are calculated to overcome all obstacles. 
She has studied many of the English crop enemies de novo, she has popu- 
larized the work of other English entomologists, and has made accessible 
to the agricultural class the work of John Curtis and Prot. Westwood, 
and has adopted and strongly advocated the adoption of measures found 
to be successful in other countries, particularly in America. The good 
which Miss Ormerod has accomplished, can hardly be estimated at the 
present time, but she will deserve, at the hands of posterity, canonization 
as the patron saint of economic entomology in England.” 
In addition to Miss Ormerod’s work, a series of reports and bulletins 
has appeared from the pen of Mr. C. Whitehead, a practical farmer who 
also holds the position of technical adviser to the Board of Agriculture. 
As stated above, great advance has been made on this continent, 
which is certainly due to the practical tendency of the majority of the 
people of North America to recognize what is useful when laid plainly 
before them ; but also to the excellent nature of the work which has 
been done. It would be entirely out of the question to mention even the 
names of the many eminent economic entomologists of the United States, 
and only such will be cited now as are necessary in speaking of the few 
instances which I propose to lay before you, to illustrate a few of the 
heads of subjects embraced in a consideration of the practical use of the 
study of entomology. 
In Canada, outside of the work done by the Dominion Entomologist’s 
Department at Ottawa, founded in 1884, the development of economic 
entomology has been most intimately connected with that of the Ento- 
mological Society of Ontario, which issued its first report on injurious 
insects in 1870. Since that year these valuable reports have appeared 
regularly, and have supplied the farmers of Ontario with much inform- 
ation of incalculable value, which has certainly saved the country a 
great deal of unnecessary loss. 
Special mention must be made of the classic work on “ Insects 
Injurious to Fruits,” by our fellow-member, Prof. W. Saunders. He and 
the Rey. Dr. Bethune, the present able editor of the “Canadian Ento- 
mologist,’ were both original members of the Entomological Society of 
Ontario, and have borne the brunt of the work of building up that 
thriving and useful organization which is now presided over by my 
esteemed colleague and co-worker, Mr. W. H. Harrington, who is now so 
well known in scientific circles all the world over for the care, accuracy 
and thoroughness of his work. The late Abbé Provancher published 
