REPORT OF THE SOCIETY 19 



REPORT OF DELEGATE TO THE ONTARIO ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY CONVENTION 



Held at Guelph, November 2nd and 3rd, 1916. 



Father Leopold, Oka Agricultural Institute 



Dr. J. C. Chapais notified me that illness would prevent him from ac- 

 companying me, as usual, on this trip to Ontario to represent you at the 

 annual meeting of the Ontario Entomological Society held at Guelph. It was 

 all the more interesting to me as I was to assist at a meeting presided over 

 by one of the most distinguished members and entomologists of this Society 

 in the person of Mr. A.F. Winn, of Westmount, P.Q. Although the only dele- 

 gate I was sure to be in familiar and distinguished company, besides mentioning 

 also the presence of our own president at the meeting, Prof. W. Lochhead. 



Unfortunately I lost all the notes I had taken of this splendid meeting 

 in the fire which ruined our Monastery and Church on the 27th of December 

 last, and you will excuse me for giving you such a poor report. However, as a 

 fruit-grower especially, I shall try to give you some details of the discussions 

 on Dust Spraying which was the subject of a paper by Professor L. Caesar 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College. 



Among the visiting members present whom I should mention were the 

 following: Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, Washing- 

 ton, D. C; Prof. P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N.Y.; Prof. E. M. Walker, Uni- 

 versity of Toronto; Prof. W. Lochhead, Macdonald College, Que.; Prof. 

 W. H. Brittain, Truro, N.S.; Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Messrs. A. Gibson, 

 J. M. Swaine, of the Entomological Branch at Ottawa, etc. 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held, at which 

 among other matters, a recommendation was made that Mr. John D. Evans, 

 of Trenton, Ont., a past President of the Society and a most active member 

 for many years, should be elected a Life Member, which was done subse- 

 quently at the general meeting. It was also decided to hold the next annual 

 meeting at Macdonald College, and if possible, to go over and pass an 

 afternoon at the Oka Agricultural Institute, La Trappe, Que. 



In the afternoon, the members met in the Entomological Lecture Room 

 in the Biological Building, under the chairmanship of Mr. Winn. The 

 proceedings commenced with the presentation of the reports of the 

 Council and the various officers and branches of the Society, followed by 



