PEOCEEDINGS FOK 1888. IX 



1. Inaugural Address, by W. P. Anderson. 



2. Empresses of the Salon, by Martin J. Griffin. 



3. Concerning Bread, by Wm. Scott. 



4. Native Plants used for Food, by James Fletcher, P.E.S.C. 



5. Bells, by W. H. Kerr, M.A. 



6. Lucretius, by W. D. LeSueur. 



7. Vancouver Island, by G. M. Dawson. 



8. Browning, by Eev. W. Herridge. 

 0. Tourguenieff, by J. H. Brown. 



10. Styles in Poetry, by A. 11. Lampman. 



11. India and the Colonies in London, by Thomas Ci-oss. 



In addition to the above lectures, membci's of the Society were admitted free to a course ot 

 winter classes, held in the Society's rooms, on Geology, Botany and Entomology, organized by the 

 Field Naturalists' Club. 



The Society, feeling the great desirability for larger rooms, authorized their Executive Council 

 to take initiative measures to procure a building of their own. 



Mr. J. K. Armstrong was elected President for the next year. 



1887-8. 



During the j^ear 1887, Mr. J. R. Armstrong filled the office of President, and the Sociot}' main- 

 tained its prosperous condition, with no outstanding liabilities for the year ending with his tenure of 

 office. The library, containing 2,230 books, and the reading-room wore, during the whole year, well 

 attended. The desirability of making a considerable addition to the former was recommended at the 

 annual meeting in March last, which proposal it is intended to carry out at once. 



A course of lectures was provided for as follows, all of which commanded a good audience : — 



Inaugural Address, byH. B. Small. 



From Woden to Christ, by A. Spencer Jones. 



An Evening with Dickens, by J. P. Waters. 



Consolidation of the Empire, by T. Macfarlane, F.E.S.C. 



The English House of Commons as I knew it, by N. F. Davin, M.P. 



Byron, a character sketch, by J. F. Waters. 



Art and the Age, by F. A. Dixon. 



In addition to the above lectures, a course of winter classes on Science, given by members of the 

 Field Naturalists' Club, open to all mombeis of the Literary and Scientific Society, was held in the 

 Society's rooms. 



No suitable building having been mot with during the year, the Society has decided to retain its 

 present quarters for two years longer, during which period, it is hoped, a scheme may bo devisai for 

 erecting a building of its own, or that some suitable structure may be offered for purchase. 



Mr. H. B. Small was elected President for the year now entered upon. 



II. — From The Entomological Society of Ontario, through Mr. H. H. Lyman. : — 



As delegate from the Entomological Society of Ontario, I have much pleasure in submitting a 

 concise report of its work and progress during the past year. The society, although nominally an 

 Ontario institution, and largely supported by a liberal annual grant from that province, is composed 

 of membei-s distributed through the Dominion, besides having associate members throughout the 

 United States as well as scattered all over the world. For the past fifteen years, a branch hae been 



Proo. 1888. B. 



