BRITISH COLUMBIA 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Regular Annual Meeting, igi6 



BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS. 



The Fifteenth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Briti-^ii 

 Columbia was held in the Provincial Museum. Parliament Buildings, Victoria, 

 B. C, on March 11th. 1916. Among those present were the following: Messrs. 

 E. M. Anderson. J. R. Anderson. E. H. Blackmore, Dr. Seymour Hadwen, 

 R. S. Sherman, Lionel E. Taylor. H. Thornber. R. C. Treherne, E. W. White. 

 G. E. Wilkerson. Tom Wilson. W. Hugh. A. J. Crocker, G. E. Parham. A. G. 

 Brown, W. Downes, D. Todd, J. A. Brydon. F. Kermode and several visitor*. 



The President. !Mr. G. O. Day. Duncan, B.C., was unfortunately ill it 

 the time of the meeting, hence was unable to occupy the chair 



The Vice-President for the Coast, Mr. E. H. Blackmore, therefore wa> 

 asked to open the meeting and to conduct the business of the Society and 

 its proceedings. 



Mr. Blackmore (Vice-President): I am very glad to accept the honour of 

 presiding at this meeting. We are all sorry, and I am in particular, to hear 

 of the indisposition of our President, Mr. Day, and we all sincerely hope he 

 will soon recover. I am sure I am expressing the feelings of the Society as 

 a whole when I say that we are fortunate in having such a President as Mr. 

 Day. His work with the Society during the past three years has been of 

 exceptional value, and we are indebted to him to a very large e.xtent, for the 

 excellent position and standing we are in as a Society. 



Our Secretary, Mr. Treherne, is, I see, first on the programme, and will 

 give us the business details that have engaged his attention during the past 

 year and I fancy, that from his remarks you will gain an impression of the 

 excellent position we are in. I will now ask our Secretary to bring up the 

 first order of business. 



Mr. Treherne (Secretarj') : The first order of business is placing this 

 annual meeting in order. If you refer to our By-Laws you will see that our 

 regular annual meeting should be held in January of each year. This ruling, 

 however, we could not follow this year. I took the matter up with the -Ad- 

 visory Board, and received their unanimous consent to postpone the meeting 

 until suitable. Hence a resolution placing this meeting in order would be 

 the first item of business. 



Resolved that this meeting be approved and considered in order. Mo\ers 

 — Parham, Sherman. — Carried. 



The Secretary: The next item of business is that relative to the finance-. 

 I am pleased to say we are in excellent standing financially. I take pleasure 

 in presenting the followin,g statement. I have included a complete statement 

 of the expenses of the Society from its resuscitation, in 1911, until the presen;, 

 for reference. 



