REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST lfe9 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Pomological and Fruit Growing Society of the Province of Quebec. Address: 

 ' Insects injurious to fruit and vegetable crops in Quebec province during 1907.' 



December 26 to January 3: Cbicago, 111. — Attending the meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science; the Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Agricultural Science; the Entomological Society of A^ierica, and tha 

 Association of Economic Entomologists. 



February 4: Ottawa. — Canadian Seed-Grovrers' Association. Address: 'The 

 place of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association in the campaign against farm 

 weeds.' 



Mr. Gibson also attended the annual meeting of the Entomological Society at 

 Guelph, and took an active part in the proceedings, giving in the various discussions 

 much useful information, which was very acceptable to the meeting. Mr. Gibson also 

 read a paper on ' Aa unusual outbreak of Ilalisidota Caterpillars.' 



Achnowledgraents. — It is again my pleasant duty to gratefully acknowledge my 

 obligations to my many correspondents in all parts of the Dominion, to practical 

 farmers who have much aided the work of the Division by promptly reporting out- 

 breaks of injurious insects and noxious weeds, by sending specimens for examination 

 sjid for our collections, and also by making observations upon points of special 

 intei-Bst. My thanks are also specially due to many eminent specialists who have helped 

 by giving us the exact identifications of specimens of plants and insects which were 

 unknown to us. Among these, special mention may be made of the following: — 



Prof. John Macoun, of Ottawa; Prof. W. G. Farlow, of Harvard University; 

 Prof. L. R. Jones, of Vermont; Dr. P. A. Eydberg, of New York, and Dr. William 

 Trelease, of St. Louis, for giving me their opinion on some doubtful plants. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, U.S., and 

 the specialists on his staff, for the identification of insects in little known orders. 



Dr. J. B. Smith, New Brunswick, N.J., who has examined and reported upon 

 hundreds of noctuids and other moths for this Division and for Canadian collectors. 



Mr. W. D. Kearfott, of Montclair, N.J., who has been of gi-eat service in naming 

 microlepid opter a . 



Mr. W. H. Harrington, Ottawa, for identifying coleoptera and hymenoptera. 



Dr. E. M. Walker, Toronto, for examining and reporting upon many specimens 

 of Canadian odonata and orthoptera. 



Sir George Ilampson, Bart., of the British Museum, has kindly examined several 

 specimens and compared them with the series in the British Museum, not only for 

 this office but for many other Canadian students. 



In conclusion, I have again much pleasure in acknowledging publicly the good 

 work which is being done by my assistants, Messrs. J. A. Guignard, Arthur Gibson 

 and J. Letourneau. 



I have the honour to be, sir. 



Your obedient servaiit, 



JAMES FLETCHER, 



Entomologist and Botanist. 



