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Letters of congratulation were also received from the following: 

 The Imperial Academy of Natural Sciences of St. Petersburg (by cable) 

 the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Vice-Chancellor 

 of the University of Cambridge, the President of Laval University, 

 Quebec, Dr. Walter Horn, Director of the German Entomological 

 Museum, Berlin, Mr. J. P. Moore, Secretary of the Academy of Natu- 

 ral Sciences of Philadelphia, Mr. G. A. Dean, Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College, Mr. E. B. Reed of the Dominion Meteorological Station, 

 Victoria, B.C., one of the founders of the Society, Dr. L. 0. Howard, 

 Chief Entomologist, Washington, D.C., the Trustees of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) the University of Chicago, Mr. N. H. 

 Cowdry of Chicago, an early member, Mr. A. Ross, Secretary Natural 

 History Society of Glasgow, Mr. G. A. Marshall, Imperial Bureau 

 of Entomology, Mr. G. F. Dow, Secretary Essex Institute, The 

 California State Commission of Horticulture, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 Prof. H. Garman, and Prof. H. F. Wickham, University of Iowa, 

 and from the President and Secretary of your own Society. 



The meetings extended over two days at Guelph, the first day 

 being concluded by a most enjoyable informal evening reception by 

 President and Mrs. Creelman, while on the second evening a most 

 interesting and instructive illustrated lecture on Ants was given by 

 Prof. W. M. Wheeler, while the third day was devoted to an excursion 

 to Grimsby, where the application of economic entomology to fruit 

 growing was examined or the visitors went on a collecting ramble. 



The progress of the Society during the 50 years of its existence 

 has been very marked. It began with a membership of about 15, 

 but now has nearly 200 on its membership roll, and the high standard 

 of the Canadian Entomologist has been well maintained, the 45th 

 volume of which was completed at the end of the year and extends 

 to 438 pages, while the first volume only extended to 110, and the 

 contributors of papers numbered 58, including besides our own 

 Canadian members, many well known entomologists of the United 

 States, two residing in Australia, and one each in Finland, Hawaii, 

 Japan, Peru, and the Canal Zone, 14 genera, 117 species, 1 sub-species 

 and 4 varieties were described as new to science in the volume, and 

 it was illustrated by 17 plates, two being groups of entomologists, 

 besides illustrations in the text. 



Since the removal of the headquarters of the Society from London 

 to Guelph, it has been housed in the buildings of the Ontario Agricul- 

 tural College, but unfortunately in different buildings, its valuable 

 library being in the library building, its collections in the College 

 Museum, and its meetings held in the biological class-room, but it is 

 now realized that this arrangement is by no means ideal, and that in 



