XCII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The Camera Section, Mr. James Bertram, president, continues to 

 do active work. On May 24tli last, the club held a pleasant outing 

 to the Forks of the Credit. The members were divided in groups 

 during the year, A. B. C. D. for the purpose of competition. The club 

 ■contributed to the American Lantern Siide Exchange, a large and very 

 fine set of slides. An annual exhibition and competition was held 

 in March and was most successful. Frequent meetings were held at 

 ■which the attendance was large. The membership has continued to 

 increase and interest in the work of the club is sustained. 



The Geological Section has quietly continued its good work of 

 past years in the collection and distribution of fossils, and though small 

 in numbers, its work is most permanent in character. 



VIII. — From the Entomological Society of Ontario, through the 

 Eev. C. J. S. Bethune, D.C.L. 



In giving a report of the doings of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario for the past year — the thirty-ninth since its foundation — it 

 will not be necessary to recount the various forms of work undertaken 

 by its members, as these were fully described last year and no impor- 

 tant changes have since been made in its methods of procedure. It will 

 be sufficient to give some particulars respecting its publications and a 

 brief account of the annual gathering of its members at the headquar- 

 ters in London. 



The " Canadian Entomologist," the monthly magazine of the 

 Society, is now in its 35th year of publication. The volume for 1902 

 contains 339 pages, and is illustrated with three full-page plates and 

 twelve figures from original drawings. The contributors number forty- 

 seven and represent Canada, the United States, Germany and Eussia. 

 The principal articles may be grouped as follows : — Descriptions of 

 new genera, species and varieties in Lepidoptera by Prof. J. B. Smith, 

 Dr. H. G. Dyar, Mr. Henry Bird, Prof. A. E. Grote and Mr. A. G. 

 Weeks; Orthoptera by Messrs. E. M. Walker, A. N. Caudell and J. A. 

 G. Eehn; Hymenoptera by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Messrs. "W^. H. 

 Ashmead, E. S. G. Titus, Charles Eobertson, J. C. Crawford, W. H. 

 Harrington, H. L. Viereck, and J. C. Bradley; Hemiptera-Homoptera 

 by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Messrs. E. D. Ball, G. B. King and E. M. 

 Ehrhorn; Neuroptera by Prof. J. G. Needhami and Mr. N. Banks; 

 Coleoptera by Prof. H. F. Wickham, and Mr. W. D. Pierce ; Diptera by 

 Messrs. D. W. Coquillet and C. W. Johnson, and Prof. Cockerell; and 

 Acarina by Mr. N. Banks. Forty-one new genera are described, 176 

 new species and 12 new varieties and subspecies. 



