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penses of publication and postage, which have to be paid promptly at 

 the time of issue of each number of the Ottawa Naturalist. The 

 annual subscription of $1 is fixed at that low figui'e on the estimate 

 that all will pay up before the end of the year. There is no wish on 

 the part of the Council to have a balance in hand, and if by obtaining 

 a larger number of members more money comes into the treasury, the 

 policy of the past will be followed of enlarging the magazine and lower- 

 ing the price of the excursion tickets, so as to give the members as 

 much as possible for their money. If members will be good enough 

 to send their subsciiptions to the treasurer, instead of waiting until an 

 application is made, they will save that officer much trouble and the club 

 the expense of postage. JAMES FLETCHER, Editor. 



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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE. 



The thirty-eighth annual meeting of this flourishing association was 

 held in Toronto, beginning on 27th August and lasting for a week. 

 The meeting was an unqualihed success. The Toronto people outdid 

 themselves in hospitality to their visitors, who went home enthusiastic 

 in their praises of the courtesies extended to them. Many valuable 

 papers were read in the various sections and clubs. It is pleasing to 

 notice that Canadians did their share to make the meetings interesting. 

 The Botanical and Entomological Clubs held regular meetings in the 

 new biological laboratory of Toronto Universit}^ Perhaps one of the 

 most interesting lectures was a demonstration by Prof. Ramsay Wright 

 of his method of teaching natural science. 



As an outcome of the meetings and discussions of the Entomologi- 

 cal Club, a permanent association or union was formed for the special 

 consideration of economic and agricultural entomology. This organiza- 

 tion, which will be known as the Association of Official Economic 



Entomologists, will meet annually, and the discussions will be confined 

 entirely to the operations of injurious and beneficial insects. The 

 officers for the year are as follows : President, Prof. C. Y. R.iley, 

 United States Entomologist ; Vice President, Prof. S. A. Forbes, State 

 Entomologist of Illinois ; Secretary, Prof. J. B. Smith, Entomologist of 

 the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. The first meeting 

 of this association was held at Washington, on 12th Nov., and the pro- 

 ceedings ai^e to be [)ublished in the next number of Insect Life. 



