4 B.C. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



By E. H. Blackmore, Victoria, B.C. 



In welcoming you to the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of our 

 Society, it is my sad and painful duty to call attention to the deaths of 

 three of our members that have occurred since our last meeting. 



I refer to the deaths of Mr. A. H. Bush, Mr. E. Baynes Reed, and 

 Mr. Tom Wilson, in the order in which they occurred. More com- 

 petent hands than mine will pa}' worthy tribute to each of them, but 

 I would like to say a few words of personal appreciation. 



Mr. Bush was one of the original members of our Society when it 

 was formed in 1901, and was elected Vice-President in 1908. 



He was one of our most active members, and built up an interesting 

 collection of Lepidoptera which contained many records new to British 

 Columbia, mostly taken on Mt. Cheam. the ascent of which mountain 

 he made on many occasions. He contributed papers, chiefly on Mountain 

 Fauna, at our annual meetings in 1912, 1913 and 1914. 



He had a pleasing personality, and was well liked by all those with 

 whom he came in contact. As you all doubtless know, he fell while 

 fighting for his King and Country on the blood-stained battlefields of 

 France in August, 1916. 



Mr. Baynes Reed, who was elected Honorary President of our 

 Society in January, 1913, was one of the oldest entomologists in the 

 Dominion of Canada, having joined the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 on its inception in 1863, and in the succeeding 25 years before his removal 

 to Victoria, he held at dififerent times the positions of Vice-President, 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Librarian, Curator and Auditor. He wrote many 

 articles on economic entomology, and was a constant contributor to the 

 Canadian Entomologist. He passed away at his home in this city 

 on November 18th last, after a long illness, at the advanced age of 79. 

 A fitting tribute to his memory is penned by his life-long friend. Rev. 

 J. C. S. Bethune, in the Canadian Entomologist for February, 1917. 



It is with deep and sincere regret that I have to refer to the tragic 

 fate which overtook Mr. Tom Wilson, on the morning of March the 6th. 

 He was also one of our original members, and was elected President at 

 the resuscitation of our Society in December, 1911. He was an ardent 

 entomologist and botanist, being especially interested in Scale Insects 

 and the distribution of the Tent-caterpillar in this Province, and we 

 always looked forward to an interesting paper by him at our annual 

 meeting. He was one of the most genial, generous and warm-hearted 

 men that I ever met, and in him the Dominion Government has lost a 

 most faithful and conscientious servant, and our Society one of its 

 most valued members. 



