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chair and gave the opening address, in the course of which he said 
that the Entomological Society was one of the best as well as the 
oldest of the associations aided by the Government of Ontario, that 
“we need its accurate work and we have been greatly aided and helped 
by it during all the nearly forty years of its existence, and, no doubt, 
shall continue to be helped by it during the years to come.” The 
Rey. Dr. Fyles, of Quebec, the President of the Society, gave an 
address on “The importance of Entomological Studies to the com- 
munity at large,” illustrating his remarks with a beautifully executed 
series of diagrams, the work of his own hand. He was followed by 
Dr. Fletcher, who spoke on “ The value of Nature Study in Educa- 
tion,’ and concluded with an exhibition of lantern slides of plants, 
insects and other natural objects. During the remaining sessions 
a number of valuable practical and scientific papers were read; these 
are published, together with the reports of the Officers, Branches and 
Sections of the Society, in the 32nd Annual Report recently issued 
by the Ontario Department of Agriculture. 
This volume of 128 pages is illustrated with two plates — a por- 
trait of the late Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, and a series of figures of 
the moth Hyphantria cunea,—three maps and fifty-eight wood cuts 
in the text. The principal articles are papers on the insects of the 
year 1901, by the directors, Messrs. Young, Evans and Johnston, and 
by Professor Lochhead and Mr. J. A. Moffat. “The Painted Lady 
Butterfly (Pyrameis Cardui)” and the “Entomological Record,” a 
new and highly important feature, which is to be continued annually, 
by Dr. James Fletcher. “The North American Fall Web Worms,” 
illustrated by the beautiful plate already referred to, by Mr. Henry 
H. Lyman. “The trend of Insect Diffusion in North America,” the 
“Imported Willow and Poplar Curculio,” and a singular case of a 
Cheese mite living in the culture intended for the destruction of the 
Chinch-bug, by Professor F. M. Webster. Two useful papers by Prof. 
Lochhead on the “ Hibernation of Insects,’ and “ Nature Study Les- 
sons on the Mosquito.” A paper by Mr. J. Alston Moffat, setting 
forth his reasons for believing that the Archippus butterfly, whose 
habits he has studied for many years, does not hibernate. Interesting 
papers on collecting and field work, by Mr. Evans, on the attractive 
powers of an electric lamp; Mr. Winn, on his wonderful captures at 
a clump of milk-weed at dusk; Mr. Walker, on “A collecting trip in 
south-western Ontario,” and Mr. Gibson, on “A Day at the Mer 
Bleue.” Dr. Fyles contributes a paper on “Crickets ”; Mr. Stevenson, 
on “Commercial Entomology ”; and Mr. Williams, on “The Food of 
the Grass Snake,” which he finds to be cut-worms. The volume closes 
