CXL THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



"Aphrophora spumaria, the Spittle Insect" by J. C. Chapais; 



"Some Silent Invaders of our Fields" by Bro. Victorin, Longueuil. 



"The Woolly Aphis in Quebec" by Rev. Father Leopold, La 

 Trappe ; 



"The Brown Tail Moth in the Maritime Provinces" by Mr. 

 Strickland, Ottawa; 



"The Medicinal Plants of Quebec" by John Adams, Ottawa; 



"Potato Diseases" by H. T. Giissow, Ottawa; 



"Parasites of the Bud Moth" by E. M. DuPorte, Macdonald 

 College ; 



"Cereal Rusts" by W. P. Fraser, Macdonald College; 



"Some Successes and Failures in Controlling Insects" (illus- 

 rated) by Prof. C. R. Crosby, Cornell University. 



Following are the Officers for the current year: 



President — Prof. W. Lochhead, Macdonald College; 



Vice-president — Mr. A. Dupuis, Village des Aulnaies, P.Q. 



Secretary -Treas. — J. M. Swaine, Ottawa. 



Curator and Librarian — Mr. P. I. Bryce, Macdonald College. 



Directors — Rev. Dr. Fyles, Ottawa, Rev. Father Leopold, 

 LaTrappe, Brother Victorin, Longueuil, A. F. Winn, Westmount, 

 Prof. Fontanel, St. Mary's College, Montreal, G. Chagnon, Montreal, 

 Dr. Hamilton, Macdonald College, Rev. Abbe Huard, Quebec. 



XVI. — The Report of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. 

 By Dr. J. M. Harper, M.A., Ph.D., F.E.I.S., Delegate. 



In the Council's last Annual Report of the Society which I rep- 

 resent — namely the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, the 

 oldest of its kind in Canada — there occurs the following sentence: 

 "The future of the Empire and of Canada depends upon the success 

 or failure of Great Britain and her Allies on the field of battle" ; and the 

 sentence a mere truism in itself, stands as a greeting from Quebec to 

 The Royal Society this year, embodying, as it may, a blending 

 of the national patriotic airs of our fair Dominion and the 

 Motherland. Our brave lads have been taking their place on the 

 battlefield whereon the struggle is on hand to re-establish the 

 balance of power as a means of securing peace; and well 

 have they played their part, well have they provided for all our 

 Canadian literary and historical societies of Canada, and The 

 Royal Society above all, the material from which the literary 



