( X I V ROY A L SOCI KTY OF C'A N A DA 



overlooked in them, and even, as regards the less attractive kinds so 

 much that is wonderful in their structure and life-histories is made 

 known to us — so clearly is it shown that, through and beyond the trouble 

 tiiey may give to man, destructive insects have important parts to play 

 in the economy of Nature — that our admiration is excited, and we feel 

 tlic truth so quaintly expressed by the lîev. George Herbert : 



" Nothing we see but means our good. 

 As our delight, or as our treasure ; 

 The whole is either our cupboard of food 

 Or cnhinct of pleasure.'' 



Appended is a list of the officers for 1898-9 : — 

 President — Henry H. Lyman, M.A., Montreal. 

 Vice-President— Eev. T. W. Fyles, D.C.L., F.L.S., So^th Quebec. 

 Secretary — W. E. Saunders. London. 

 Treasurer — J. A. Balkwill, London. 



Directors : 



Division No. 1— W. H. Harrington, F.E.S.C, Ottawa. 

 No. 2— J. D. Evans, Trenton. 



" No. 3 — Arthur Gibson, Toronto. 



" No. 4 — A. H. Kilman, Eidgway. 



" No. 5 — E. W. Eennie, London. 



Directors ex-officio (ex-presidents of the Society) — Prof. Wm. 

 Saunders, LL.D., F.E.S.C, F.L.S., Ott'awa, Director of Experimental 

 Farms; Eev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., D.C.L., F.E.S.C, Headmaster 

 Trinity School, Port Hope; James Fletcher, LL.D., F.E.S.C, F.L.S., 

 Entomologist and Botanist, Experimental Farms, Ottawa; John Dear- 

 ness, I.P.S., London. 



Director ex-ofjicio (Ontario Agricultural College) — Prof. Wm. 

 Lockhead, Guelph. 



Librarian and Curator — J. Ashton Moilat, London. 



Auditors — J. 11. Bowman and W. H. Hamilton, London. 



Editor of the Canadian Entomologist — Eev. Dr. Bethune, Port 

 Hope. 



Editing Committee — Dr. J. Fletcher, Ottawa; H. H. Lyman, Mont- 

 real; J. D. Evans, Trenton; W. H. Harrington, Ottawa; James White, 

 Snelgrove. 



Delegate to the Eoyal Society — Eev. Dr. Fyles, South Quebec. 



Delegates to the Western Fair — J. Dearness and W. E. Saunders, 

 London. 



