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sold one collection of insects to the Provincial Minister of Agriculture, and 

 this was placed in the Museum of Public Instruction at its foundation in 

 1880. In 1893 the Department of Public Instruction bought the latest 

 collection he had made prior to his death in 1892. This collection is pre- 

 served just as it was classified and named by him, for it will become more 

 and more necessary to refer to it in studying his entomological works. I 

 may add that the three collections at Quebec and Levis contain specimens 

 of nearly all the hundreds of new species he describes. 



There is also in the Museum of Public Instruction the collection of 

 insects which belonged to the founder of the museum, Mr. D. N. St. Cyr; 

 this is not very large. We also have the valuable collection of Lepidoptera 

 obtained in 1909 from Rev. Dr. T. W. Fyles. This collection of butter- 

 flies, on which Dr. Fyles worked for forty-five years, includes nearly every 

 kind found in the district of Quebec. It contains 2300 specimens, all 

 mounted and named, a number of them being quite rare. They are pre- 

 served under the name of the "Fyles Collection." 



This brief history will show that up to the present time a certain 

 amount of attention has been given to entomology in the province of Quebec, 

 and I think I am safe in saying that no other province of Canada can show 

 a record in any way comparable with ours. Now that natural history has 

 become part of the curriculum in all our schools it is to be hoped that the 

 time will soon come when the number of our naturalists, and especially our 

 entomologists, will be greatly increased. 



