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Central Experimental Farm, 



Ottawa, 23rd October, 1912. 

 Mr. R. Treherne, 



1625 Nelson Street, 



Vancouver, B. C: 

 Dear Sir, — 



I thank you for your letter received yesterday, and fcr your kind promise 

 to send a copy of your Proceedings containing the list of members of your Ento- 

 mological Society, so that I may write to them direct for Bumble-bees. I am 

 also workinfi up the other Aculeate hymenoptera, and shall be pleased to receive 

 specimens of Wasps, of Sand-wasps and solitary Bees. 

 I remain, 



Your obedient servant, 



F. W. L. SLADEN, 

 Assistant for Apiculture. 



Mr. W. H. Brittain, Provincial Entomologist, also requested the 

 members present, as well as those who were unable to be at the meeting, 

 to send him specimens of British Columbia Coccidae (Scale insects) for 

 identification and study. 



Note — Financial Statement follows the list of members on last 

 page. 



RE IMPERIAL BUREAU. 



The Secretary then read a letter which he had received from Dr. 

 C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, in regard to the formation 

 of an Imperial Bureau which is being formed in London and will be 

 maintained by the various Governments within the British Einpire. 



"It would probably interest the members of the Society, when they 

 meet in January, if you informed them of the formation of this Bureau. 

 The first move which was made towards its formation was the calling 

 of a Conference in 1911 by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State 

 for the Colonies of the Ministers of Agriculture of the various Dominions 

 and Colonies who were in London at that time. At this Conference it was 

 decided that such a Bureau was desirable for the purpose of assisting the 

 various countries in the British Empire in the matter of preventing the 

 spread of and furthering the investigations on injurious insects. The 

 Colonial Office then drew up a scheme for the formation of a Bureau of 

 this nature and this was submitted to the various Dominions and Colonies 

 for their consideration. While the scheme submitted did not benefit 

 Canada to the extent that it benefitted other parts of the Empire, chiefly 

 because our entomological service is well organized, but more especially 

 because the scheme proposed to confine itself, so far as the collecting of 

 information regarding insect pests was concerned, to the countries within 

 the British Empire, we wished to further its aims and co-operate, if 



