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REPORT OF DELEGATE TO THE FIFTIETH CONVENTION OF 

 THE ONTARIO ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY., 



By ]^Ir. J. C. Chapais. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : — 



Just a year ago, to-day, your Society appointed ^Ir. Winn and myself as 

 delegates to attend the fiftieth convention of the Ontario entomological Sociey 

 to be held at Guelph, Ontario, some time during last summer. This convention 

 was held at the Ontario Agricultural College, at Guelph, and at Grimsby, Ontario, 

 on the 27th, 28th and 29th of August. I left my home on August 25th and ar- 

 rived at Guelph on the morning of August 27th. We were in all thirty-five dele- 

 gates gathered from England, many provinces of the Dominion, and the United 

 States. It was arranged that we were to be the guests of the College during the 

 two first days of the convention. We had our rooms at the Alacdonald Hall, and 

 for our meals were the guests of Dr. G. C. Creelman, whose frank and hearty 

 hospitality made our sojourn at Guelph most agreeable. The meetings were held 

 in the Alassey Hall. On A\'ednesday afternoon, at the first meeting under the 

 presidency of Reverend C. J. S. Bethune, the thirty-five de'legates had an oppor- 

 tunity of presenting addresses from their Societies. On the evening of the same 

 day, all the delegates attended a very pleasant reception at the residence of the 

 President of the College, where they had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Creelman 

 and other ladies, some of whom were wives of delegates, etc., whose company 

 made an agreeable diversion to the arduous work of the first meeting. On 

 Thursday, three other meetings took place in the Massey Hall, and. then the 

 convention was adjourned to Grimsby where an excursion was arranged for 

 the next day. 



The whole of Friday was devoted to the excursion to Grimsby and the noted 

 Niagara Fruit District. The excursionists had lunch at "The Village Inn," Grims- 

 by; afterwards, about half of the party took part in a stroll in the hills surround- 

 ing the town in search of entomological and botanical specimens, while the other 

 half had a very pleasant drive to visit the fine peach and pear orchards of the 

 neghbourhood and sample many of the good fruits grown there. Nothing finer 

 to inspect than those well kept orchards, carefully cultivated and free from in- 

 sect pests and fungous diseases, especially for a man like myself, as this was the 

 first opportunity I had of visiting such peach and pear orchards and of gathering 

 from the trees some luscious fruits they were bearing. 



I cannot enter here into the names of the societies represented at that conven- 

 tion, of the program followed at the meetings, nor give the names of the dele- 



