2-4 B.C. Entomological Society. 



of the Ontario Society was held last November, and in order to publish it in time 

 for this meeting I wrote a personal resolution in my own name, suggesting that all 

 of these Provincial Societies should be boiled down, and that we sliould no longer 

 try to enlarge the scope of the proceedings of British Columbia. Quebec, or Nova 

 Scotia. I made mention that we were a branch of the National Society, which had 

 become known as the Ontario Society. I suggested that the publications of pro- 

 ceedings be amalgamated and formed into a bi-monthly national bulletin. Further- 

 more, we have from time to time practically taken from the Canadian EntomoJofjist 

 papers that were offered to us because they were British Columbia subjects, advising 

 us that if we did not want them they would send them to the Canadian Entomolopist. 

 This is undesirable. If we form a National Society we may get a bi-monthly 

 bulletin. These proceedings (Bulletin 4) were given in January last and came out 

 last September, heiug eight months before they got to the public. It would be much 

 better to have a National Society and have them published quarterly. 



I suggested in my resolution that the Dominion Entomologist be requested to 

 approach the various Provincial Governments, asking for a separate grant from 

 each proportionate to the membership, and to establish headquarters in Ottawa or 

 some other place from which the bulletins can be issued. This was taken up. I 

 fear, as coming from this Society, However, if this Society desires to go on 

 record 



Mr. Day: I think we should have an opinion from the private members; it 

 is a matter that requires thinking about. 



Mr. Treherne : I have also been informed that Dr. Bethune and Dr. Walker, of 

 Ontario, are considering the matter. 



Mr. Andei-son : Has the private opinion of the other Provincial Societies .vet 

 been aired? 



Mr. Treherne: Not yet; in the meantime their replies are still pending. I 

 wrote Jlr. Brittain in Nova Scotia suggesting that he get busy along the same lines. 



Mr. Ti-eherne : It is an expensive jiroposition getting out bulletins like this. 

 We have to get our own plates and pay for them ourselves, and if we could only 

 get a National Society together we could use a great many plates which are in the 

 East. 



Mr. Day : 'Would the proceedings of the National Society be extensive enough 

 to Include all such jiroceedings as are now published by the Provincial Society? 

 Would they not eliminate a great deal? That would be a point we would have no 

 control of, what the.v will print or will not print ; whereas if we publish our own 

 proceedings we can print what we want and use our own discretion. They will 

 leave out a lot of things which we would like to have put in. 



Mr. Treherne : I suppose the committee would be representative of the different 

 Societies. I fancy there should not be any difliculty from that, because the number 

 of issues published in the year would greatly exceed the supply. Say here we have 

 SO pages in this bulletin, and the Ontario Society is not much larger than that. 

 If we split it in four and spread it over a year it would cover all. 



Mr. Anderson: All details sent in from each Society should be printed? 



Mr. Treherne: If we had an Advisory Board, it would rest with them as to 

 what should be printed. 



Mr. Day : It is an important question, and perhajis we ought to take the 

 opinion of this Society, and in the meantime ascertain the feeling of the other 

 Societies and lay it over for another year. 



Mr. Treherne : It appears to me that it is only a question of time and it will 

 have to come down to this bi-monthly proposition. This annual report business 

 seems to me to be absolutely antiquated. Each one is trying to publish a little 

 bulletin of its own Society, while they really all should come under one head. That 

 is my point. One Societ.v is in competition with the other, and competition is 

 always wasteful. If .vou care to leave this over until this evening or lay it over 

 for another year, we can think it over. 



