your approval. It will bear 'good evidence, that, through the Department, a vast amount 

 of practical information has been given to the public respecting the habits and life history 

 of the various insect friends and foes that abound in every part of the Province. 



I am glad to be able to report that our Society still maintains the publication of the 

 Canadian Entomologist. 



During the year an application was made to the members of the Society by the 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries of the Dominion to furnish specimens, illustrating the 

 natural history of insects serving as food for fishes, or which are destroyers of spawn, it 

 being desired to exhibit them at the great International Fisheries exhibition to be held 

 in London, England, in 1883. 



The Society cheerfully complied with the request, and it is intended to prepare some 

 forty cases as a Canadian exhibit. 



I have the honour, sir, to remain, 



Your obedient servant, 



Edmund Baynes Reed, 



Secretary-Treasurer. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The annual meeting was held in the rooms of the Natural History Society, Montreal, 

 on Thursday, August 24, 1882, at 3 o'clock p.m. 



The President, Mr. Wm. Saunders, of London, Ont., in the chair. 



Present: H. F. Bassett,Waterbury, Conn.; Rev. C. J. S. Bethuno, M.A., Port 

 Hope ; G. J. Bowles, Vice-President, Montreal ; F. B. Caulfield, Montreal ; Prof. J. H, 

 Comstock, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Prof. A. J. Cook, Agric. College, Lansing, 

 Mich. ; Wm. Couper, Montreal ; T. Craig, Montreal ; J. M. Denton, London ; C. R. 

 Dodge, Washington, D. C. ; Prof. C. H. Fernald, State Coll., Orono, Maine j C. Fish, 

 Brunswick, Maine ; Jas. Fletcher, Ottawa ; Rev. F. W. Fyles, Cowansville, P. Q. ; Prof, 

 H. A. Hagen, Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. ; W. H. Harrington, Ottawa ; Prof. 

 S. Hensbaw, Boston, Mass. ; Dr. P. R. Hoy, Rachine, Wis. ; J. G. Jack, Chateauguay 

 Basin, P. Q. ; Dr. H. S. Jewett, Dayton, Ohio ; Prof. J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist, 

 Albany, N. Y. ; H. H. Lyman, Montreal ; B. Pickman Mann, Assist. Entomologist, 

 Agricul. Dept., Washington. D. C. ; Prof. C. V. Riley, Entomologist Agric. Dept., 

 Washington, D. C. ; Wm. Shaw, Montreal; E. D. Winble, Montreal; C. D. Zimmer- 

 man, Buffalo, N. Y. ; E. Baynes Reed, Sec.-Treas., London, and others. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed, the reading being dispensed 

 with as they had been printed and sent to the members. 



The President then addressed a few words of cordial welcome to the members 

 present. 



The report of the Council and the financial statement of the Sec.-Treas. for the past 

 year were then read, and on motion, adopted. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1882. 



In presenting their Annual Report, the Council desire to give some explanation as 

 to the place and time of holding this annual meeting. Knowing that it had been 

 determined that the American Association for the Advancement of Science would meet 

 this year in Montreal, it seemed to your Council to be desirable to hold the annual 

 session of the Entomological Society of Ontario at the same time and place. 



The necessary application was accordingly made to the Hon, S. C. Wood, the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario, to sanction such aij arrangement, 



