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districts, and described his experiments with the lime and sulphur 

 wash for the destruction of the San José scale, and their successful 

 results. 



At a public meeting in the evening the Rev. Dr. Fyles read his 

 presidential address on " Insect Life," illustrated by a series of beau- 

 tiful coloured diagrams that he had himself prepared; and Prof. Loch- 

 head gave a lantern lecture on " Some noted Butterfly-hunters and 

 some common Butterflies/^ 



The proceedings at the several sessions of the meeting and the 

 papers read are given in full in the thirty-third Annual Eeport of the 

 Societj^ which was published by the Ontario Department of Agricul- 

 ture in TMarch last. It consists of 132 pages illustrated with 108 

 engravings in the text and photogravure portraits of Mr. E. Baynes 

 Eeed, one of the original members of the Society and for many years 

 ■one of its most active officers, and of Mr. W. B. Saunders the present 

 energetic Secretary. Eeports are given from the various officers and 

 sections and the branches at Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, and also 

 from the North- West (Canada) Entomological Society. 



Among the papers read may be mentioned the valuable reports on 

 the insects of the year in their districts by the directors, Messrs. C. H. 

 Young, Ottawa; J. D. Evans, Trenton; E. M. Walker, Toronto; G. E. 

 Eisher, Hamilton and Niagara; and J. A. Balkwill, London. These are 

 supplemented by further notes on the season by Messrs. C. Steven.-on, 

 J. A. Moffatt, Prof. Lochhead and Dr. James Fletcher. Mr. Lyman 

 contributed a paper on the remarkable habits of the Archippus butter- 

 fly and the points in its history on which further information is 

 required. Dr. Fyles furnished an article on the Paper-making Wasps 

 of Quebec ; Mr, A. Gibson on '' Some interesting habits of Lepidop- 

 terous larvas," and an account of Semiophora Youngii, a new enemy of 

 tamarac and spruce trees; Mr. Harrington, "Notes on Insects Injurious 

 to Pines ;" Prof. Lochhead an illustrated " Key to Orchard Insects ;" 

 Mr. Moffat, "A Talk About Entomology;" and Dr. Fletcher and Mr. 

 Harrington the very valuable " Entomological Record for 1902.' 



OiJicers for 1902-1903. 



President — Professor William Lochhead, B.A., M.S., Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph. 



Vice-President — J. D. Evans, C.E., Trenton. 

 Secretary — W. E. Saunders, London. 

 Treasurer — J. H. Bowman, London. 



Directors — Division No. 1 — C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge. 

 Division No. 2— C. E. Grant, Orillia. 



