CXVIII THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
The annual lecture was given by Professor Needham, of Cornell 
University. He discussed “The Role of Insects in Water Life.” In an 
eloquent and instructive address, illustrated by lantern slides, Professor 
Needham explained to the Society the work in an entirely new field of 
economic research now being carried on at Cornell under his direction. 
The dry lands of the west are being reclaimed by irrigation. Before 
their canals are finished, Professor Needham’s work will have shown 
the way to the utilization of great tracts of marsh and swamp, now 
utterly useless. 
The Society’s publication, the Canadian Entomologist, has been 
published regularly, and continues to be one of the most valuable of 
Entomologic journals. Dr. E. M. Walker, the present editor, is main- 
taining the high standard set by his predecessor, Professor Bethune. 
The forty-second volume, which closed in December 1910, con- 
tained over 400 pages, eight full-page plates, besides text figures, and 
nearly 100 articles. 
