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REPORT OF SECRETARY-TREASURER 



I beg to submit the report of the work done by the B. C. Entomo- 

 logical Society during the j'ear 1919. 



The membership of the Society has increased during the past year 

 and a number af new members have joined. We have now forty-two 

 members in good standing, as compared with twenty-hve reported as 

 paid up the previous year, which is a gratifying increase and indicates 

 that renewed interest is being taken in our work, and that the Society 

 is recovering from the setback it received during the years of the war. 



In respect to membership, ours is the strongest branch of the 

 Ontario Entomological Society. 



In accordance with a resolution passed at last year's meeting, I duly 

 communicated with the Secretary of the Parent Societ)' regarding the 

 possibility of our receiving associate members to our branch. His reply 

 was to the effect that there was apparently nothing in the constitution of 

 the Parent Society to prevent this, though such associate members 

 would not be entitled to the Canadian Entomologist or the Proceedings 

 "of the Ontario Society unless the full fee was paid. 



The sum of $100.00 was offered last year by the Society to provide 

 prizes at the Fall Fairs for the best collections of insects made l)y 

 school children. By the advice of Mr. J. W. Gibson, Director of Agri- 

 cultural Instruction, the following Fairs were selected: New West- 

 minster, Vancouver, Kelowna, Armstrong. Trail, Kamloops, Nelson, 

 Penticton, Chilliwack, North and South Saanich, Cowichan, Nanaimo, 

 Surrey, Langley. Mr. Gibson was also kind enough to commimicate 

 with the teachers at these points, asking them to draw the attention 

 of the pupils to this competition. Probably owing to the fact that it 

 ^was rather late in the season before the matter was brought to the 

 attention of the schools, less interest was taken than would otherwise 

 ha\-e Ijeen the case, but the prizes were competed for at Nelson, Kelowna. 

 Cowichan and Langley, and the sum of $27.50 was distributed in prize 

 money. In view of the increased attention paid to the teaching of 

 Entomology in the schools, it is hoped that the Society will be al>le to 

 continue to oiifer these prizes. 



During the year the library has been increased by the purchase of 

 a number of works on Entomology. The sum of $150.00 was voted 

 last year for the purchase of books, but !)}• the President's suggestion, 

 it was decided to expend $100.00 at first. A list of desirable works 

 was drawn up and submitted to the President and- members of the 

 Advisory Board for consideration, and was. approved by them after 

 some alterations and reductions in the list had been made. The sum 

 expended has been $101.86, on which $11.86 is still owing. In all, 33 

 works were purchased, and the majority of these are I^ound volumes, 

 and with the exception of one or two smaller papers, are standard works 



