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ince. and is al)le and willing to determine specimens in this order for 

 an^• of onr meml:)ers who wish to avail themselves in this way. 



Most of us have done a little desultory collecting in this order, but 

 none of us have taken it up in a proper systematic manner, and there is 

 a great field open for an}- member who would undertake to do this. 

 I feci sure that many species new to British Columbia and probably 

 new to science await the collector who devotes himself solely to the 

 study of this order. 



Coming next to the Diptera, our thanks are due to Air. R. S. 

 Sherman, of X'ancouver, for the able and painstaking manner in which 

 he has worked in this order. Since the death of Capt. R. V . Harvey, 

 he has worked jiractically single-handed, and has added extensively to 

 our knowledge of the dipterous fauna of British Columbia. Latterly, he 

 has devoted himself to the study of the Fungus Gnats, and has added an 

 immense number of species to our local list. 



On looking over the list of members. I do not find any that are 

 taking any special interest in the Hymenoptrea, with the e.xception of 

 Mr. Williams Hugh, who is taking up the study of the aculeate 

 hymenoptera, that is, the Social and Solitary Bees and Wasps. In that 

 section alone he will find a life's work. 



I am gratified to learn that Mr. W. Downes has taken up as a special 

 study the order Flemiptera. This is an order which has been entirely 

 neglected for many years from a systematic standpoint, although from 

 an economic view it is a very important one, as it contains manv species 

 which do a great deal of damage. I am pleased that so able a man as 

 Mr. Downes is associating himself with this order, and I feel sure that 

 we shall benefit by his researches in the future, and shall lotjk forward 

 to a ^•aluable paper at our next annual meeting. 



Mr. W. R. Carter, who has been a memlier for several years, is now 

 associated with the Provincial Museum. He is a good botanist, and 

 should be very helpful to those lepidopterists whose knowledge of botany 

 is limited, in determining the food plants on which they find their larvae 

 feeding. 



r)n the economic side, we have three more \-aluable members, chief 

 of whom is Mr. R. C. Treherne, whose \-aluabIe and important work on 

 the insect pests of British Columbia is known from coast to coast. Mr. 

 Ed. White, who was associated with Dr. Cameron in his early work on 

 the Thrips, and is now Inspector of Fruit Pests for the Department of 

 .Agriculture, taking in the district comprised by \'ancouver Island and 

 the Lower Mainland: and Mr. M. Ruhman. the Provincial Entomologist, 

 who is stationed at \'ernon. and has done a lot of good work during the 

 past year, in conjunction with Mr. Treherne, in investigating and con- 

 trolling outlneaks of the codling moth in the Okanagan district. 



