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only one of pleasure and pride in what you have accomplished, hut a 

 plea for hearty co-operation. Those of us who see our English con- 

 temporary the London "Entomologist," which is just one year older 

 than its Canadian namesake, will recall the quotation that appears on 

 its brilliant orange cover every mbnth, and it can easily be memorized 

 by all— 



"By mutual confidence and mutual aid. 

 Great deeds are done and great discoveries made." 



There is one other matter that should not be omitted, namely, that 

 a new and stronger tie than any mentioned above is binding us closer 

 together. Our members in every Province have answered the call of 

 King and Country to fight side by side, as true men of science, against 

 a power wiiich has made science only a tool for achieving deeds of 

 unthinkable barbarity. In numbers that have joined the colours, the 

 British Columbia Branch stands foremost, but all will do their share. 

 On the same day that I was reading an account of my friend Mr. H. 

 Simms' observations of butterflies in the trenches, I was grieved to hear 

 that the pioneer entomologist of British Columbia, Mr. R. V. Harvey, 

 had been killed "Somewhere in France." The ancients used the word 

 Psyche to indicate both the butterfly and the soul; and the butterfly is 

 forever regarded as a symbol of the resurrection — a sacred thought dear 

 to many a dying entomologist. 



The eneiny has recently given the press the information that science, 

 especially in Natural History in Canada, is at a standstill owing to the 

 war. So far as Entoinology is concerned, if anyone thinks it worth 

 while to brand this statement as being of the saine nature as others 

 that are "Made in Gennany," let him look up the records of the last 

 ineetings held in Ottawa, Montreal and Victoria, and learn that they 

 rank among the best in the 52 years of our existence. 



