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evenings. During the past year important work lias been clone by the 

 Club towards carrying out its main object, viz.: the investigation of the 

 Natural History of the locality. New plants and fossils have been 

 found, and new birds have been observed, and, notwithstanding that the 

 season has been exceptionally barren, as far as perfect insects are 

 concerned, the Entomologists have succeeded in securing some rare 

 species both of Coleoptera and Le])idoptera, as well as some rare larvae of 

 the latter order. Notices of all these discoveries will be given in the 

 reports of the leaders of the sevei'al branches. 



The number of our corresponding members remains the same ; but 

 there has been a slight change in the substitution of the name of Mr. 

 H. Edwards, the editor of " Papilio," for that of Prof. Macoun, who is 

 now an Active Member of the Club. By the appointment of Prof. 

 Macoun on the Geological and Natural History Survey, and his removal 

 to Ottawa, the Club has received a most powerful acquisition. Prof. 

 Macoun is well posted in all branches of Natural History, and a 

 thorough Botanist and Ornithologist, one, too, who is as generous and 

 able in imparting information as he is energetic and successful in ac- 

 quiring it. To Mr. "W. Saunders the Club owes some kind and compli- 

 mentary notices in the " Canadian Entomologist," a spirited monthly 

 magazine quite indispensable to everyone who wishes to study Canadian 

 insects. Mr. Saunders, too, is just about to supply a want, which has 

 for very many years been felt in Canada, by the publication of a work 

 (m the Insects injurious to Fruit Trees, and his name alone is sufficient 

 guarantee that it will be thoroughly done. Our other corresponding 

 member, Mr. Hill, still continues to show his interest in the Club by 

 frequent remittances of British Columbia plants and insects. During the 

 past season a box of beautiful Fresh-water Shells has been received from 

 Mr. Gilbert Heron, who is now in Texas, and the Library has been 

 enriched by the addition of several valuable works, chiefly transactions 

 of other Societies and Magazines of Natural History. Among these I 

 would call special attention to the following : — 



Twelve parts of Transactions of the Physico-Economical Society, of 

 Konigsberg, received from the Society through the influence of Prof. 

 P. Caspary. This Society is one of great influence, and the publications 

 are of a very superior class. Of si)ecial value to the Entomologist are 



