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In passing, I think it is only rig-ht to mention the heroic death of 

 Serg-t.-Major W. T. Taylor, the youngest son of the late Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor, who was the President of our Society for so many years. Sergt. 

 Taylor was only twenty years of age, and while leading his men during 

 an attack on an enemy position, he was struck by a piece of shrapnel 

 and his left arm torn ofif. Despite this terrible injury, he urged on his 

 men to greater efforts, while he lay in a shell hole. After the assault on 

 the enemy had been successfully effected, he was rescued but spurned 

 assistance, saying that there were others who needed it worse than he. 

 He died shortly afterwards, alone in his dugout, from loss of blood. He 

 was educated at Mount Tolinie University School, and was a pupil of 

 the late Captain Harvey. 



At this, our annual meeting, it will be only fitting for us to pass 

 a vote of condolence to the families of the deceased gentlemen. 



During the past season the Dominion Government appointed Dr. 

 A. E. Cameron on a special mission to investigate the ravages of the 

 Pear Thrips on the Saanich Peninsula, and I wish to welcome him 

 amongst us, and to take this opportunity of extending the good wishes 

 of the Society towards him. Perhaps you are not all aware of the 

 great success that attended the work of Dr. Cameron and Mr. Treherne 

 amongst the Pear Thrips during the past year. 



I believe I am right in stating that, owing to their efforts in this 

 direction at Mr. Bryden's orchard at Royal Oak. there was the biggest 

 crop of fruit produced in many years, notwithstanding the adverse 

 weather conditions encountered in the early part of the season. Dr. 

 Cameron has become a member of our Society, and will be a great 

 acquisition to us and a source of strength to the entomology of the 

 Province. 



He has otiered to help any of our members who are desirous of 

 going deeper into the studies of our local insects, and I look forward 

 to Dr. Cameron's assistance with great interest, assistance which will 

 be invaluable to those of us who intend to study the biology and 

 taxonomy of our insect fauna. 



While I am on this subject, I would like to draw the attention of 

 our Society to the excellent work that our worthy Secretary, Mr. R. C. 

 Treherne, has done on that destructive pest the Cabbage Root Maggot. 

 A very excellent bulletin, comprising 58 pages and 27 original illustra- 

 tions, entitled "The Cabbage Root Maggot and its Control in Canada," 

 was issued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture last April, 

 written by Messrs. Arthur Gibson and R. C. Treherne in collaboration, 

 which covers ever}- phase of the subject, and I think that we, as a 

 Society, should congratulate our worthy Secretary as junior author of 

 such an important contribution to economic entomology. 



