PROCEEDINGS, 1918 5 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



By E. H. Blackiiiore, \'ictoria, B.C. 



As President of your Society. I beg to extend a hearty welcome to 

 all those members who are present at this our Seventeenth Annual 

 Meeting. Following the precedent of Dr. C. Ciordon Hewitt, at the 

 Annual Meeting of the parent Society in 1915. I am not going to give 

 you a presidential address. In opening that meeting he said that he 

 did not consider it necessary or even desiraljlc for the President to give 

 a presidential address on re-election, and in that view I full}' concur. 

 Instead I am going to talk to you about ourselves, both collectively and 

 individually : what each of us has done, and what the Society has done 

 to advance our knowledge of the entomolog)- of British Columbia. 



I have had the honour and privilege of being your President now 

 for the past two years, and I think it is my duty to give some account 

 of my stewardship, as it were — to review the past two years and note 

 what progress we have made. On looking back 1 am glad to say that 

 we have progressed, and we are in a better position now as regards active 

 workers and students than we have ever been in the history of our 

 Society. 



Last year, during my address to you, I made an earnest appeal to 

 each one of you to do something, however small, towards advancing 

 our knowledge of the insect fauna of this great Province; I asked you 

 to take up some of the more neglected orders, and for all of us to work 

 together in a spirit of harmony and co-operation, and I am. pleased to say 

 that my appeal was not made in vain. Work has been commenced in 

 some of these neglected orders and much good work has been done 

 throughout the year, some of the results of which will be seen in the 

 programme which you have before you. 



It is with great regret that I notice the absence of many familiar 

 faces this morning; some have answered their country's call and are 

 now in training, others have gone overseas, and some have left the 

 Province to go to other spheres of usefulness. In this latter category 

 1 have special reference to Dr. S. Hadwen and Dr. A. E. Cameron, who 

 have been recalled to Ottawa to take up other and, in the opinion of 

 iJr. Hewitt, greater activities. 



These two members are a distinct loss to our Society. Dr. Cameron, 

 who was only with us a comparatively short tmie, endeared himself to 

 all those members with whom he came in contact, and was ever ready to 

 help with advice and suggestions any of us who were confronted with 

 some of those difficult problems which are forever arising. 



In conjunction with two other of our members, Messrs. R. C. 

 Treherne and E. W. White, he wrote a valuable Bulletin on the Pear 



