APPENDIX E CI 



The forty-§ieconjd. annual meeting was held in October at the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, with an attendance at some of 

 the meetings of over one hundred, and the society was favoured with 

 the presence of Prof. John B. Smith, State Entomologist of ISTew 

 Jersey. Eeports were presented on the injurious and other insects of 

 the various districts in Ontario, from the different branches and sec- 

 tions of the society', and addresses and papers were given on a variety 

 of subjects. 



The thirt}'^sixth annual report of the society to the Ontario Gov- 

 ernment has been published, comprising one hundred and forty-four 

 pages, and, as usual, contains a full account of the work of the pre\dous 

 year, and the papers read at the annual meeting, as well as numerous 

 articles of an economic nature, giving to fruit-growers and agricul- 

 turalists an accurate account of injurious insects along with the best 

 methods of attacking them. 



Among these may be mentioned, — ^' A Eeview of the Mosquito 

 Work in New Jersey," by Dr. J. B. Smith; "Experiments against 

 the San José Scale, " by Prof. Lochhead ; '' Entomological Conditions 

 in ISTorth Carolina," by Prof. F. Sherman ; " Eeports on Insects of the 

 Season 1905," by Prof. Lochhead, Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Fyles, Dr. Bethune, 

 and Mr. C. Stevenson; "The Tussock Moths," by Dr. Fyles and Mr. 

 H. H. Lyman; "The Phlox Mite; Tbe Blue Spruce Fly; and, On 

 Bumble Bees that Fertilize the Bed Clover," by Mr. T. D. Jarvis; 

 ^'Forest Insects," by Eev. Dr. Fyles and Mr. E. J. Zavitz; "The 

 Advantage and Disadvantage of the Canadian Entomologist," by Eev. 

 Dr. Fyles; "Butterfly Collecting in Canada," by Mrs. Nicholl; 

 " Orthoptera and Odonata from Algonquin Park," by Mr. E. M. 

 Walker; "Insects as î^ature Studies," by Mr. S. B. McCready; "In- 

 jurious Insects of the Flower Garden," by ]Mr. Arthur Gibson. 



Tbe library now consists of over eighteen hundred volumes, and 

 a card catalogue according to subjects has been begun. The collections 

 at London are open to the public three days a week, and advantage is 

 taken of tliis opportunity, the number of visitors being increasing. 



The branches are all in a satisfactory state, and our friends in 

 British Columbia have decided to issue a quarterly " Bulletin," the first 

 number of which lias just appeared, and contains much information 

 on the insects of British Columbia, particularly on the Coleoptera. It 

 was felt that as the members in that province were so widely scattered,- 

 that a medium of communication would bind them together, and we 

 should like to see the members in the Maritime Provinces and also in 

 the ISTorthwest follow a similar course, so that our society could have 

 a chain of branches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



