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Department of Agriculture, where a plant disease survey has been in operation 

 since July, 1917. Their practice has been to have one collaborator in each State 

 •who collects data from all the persons in that State whom he can interest in the 

 work, and this material is forwarded to Washington for compilation. The method 

 they adopt for reporting losses is in percentage of reduction in yield. Forms are 

 supplied for recording this and other information relative to the survey, together 

 with rules to be followed in arriving at the figures to be submitted. It is uncertain, 

 at present, what form the publication of this data will take in Canada, but it is 

 hoped that it will be published annually as a bulletin from the Division of Botany 

 for general distribution. 



The extent and the value of the ])iece of work will be dependent on the 

 amount of co-operation secured. I would ask you all to give this matter your 

 earnest consideration, and to make your criticism constructive rather than des- 

 tructive, and render every assistance you can to establish this Dominion Plant 

 Disease Survey on a permanent and beneficial basis. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RICHES OF QUEBEC 

 By Canon V. A. Huard, Quebec. 



A title like the above doubtless may need some explanation, for it is not 

 necessary that in reading it some innocent entomologist, on account of the 

 simplicity expected to be met with amongst entomologists, imagines that he has 

 only to run around the streets of Quebec, net in hand, to capture insects without 

 number and of the rarest species. These pages are going to deal, not with living 

 insects but rather with dead insects — with insects dead but preserved in certain 

 methodical ways, otherwise known as an "entomological collection". I wish in 

 other words to {X)int out some advantages the entomologist will find at Quebec to 

 help him in his studies. A brief account of the Quebec entomological collections 

 will serve this purpose. 



There are in Quebec but few private collections. In fact I do not know of any 

 other than my own. Its principal characteristic is that it is fifty years old. which 

 indicates sufficiently that its owner has for some time ceased to belong to the 

 category of young men. The collection is a very considerable one and includes 

 the product of my hunts in the vicinity of Quebec and also in that of the Saguenay 

 where I resided for twenty-five years. What gives the greatest value to this col- 

 lection is that it contains a large number of specimens identified by Provancher 

 and among the Lepidoptera by Dr. McDunnough. the distinguished specialist in 

 charge of the collections of the Entomological branch of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Ottawa. 



But I wish to speak here particularly about the large collections that one 

 might term public, which are to be seen at Quebec and which are those of the 

 Museum of Public Instruction and of Laval Universitv. 



