THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. i 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held, by invitation of the 

 London Branch, in their rooms, City Hall, London, Ontario, on the 7th of 

 July, at 3 p.m. The President, Professor Croft, occupied the chair, and the 

 following members were present : — From Toronto, Messrs. Sangster, Clementi, 

 Bethune, and Osier; from London, Messrs. Saunders, Reed, Barber, Griffiths, 

 Puddicombe, Denton, Chapman, Waterman, and Simpson. 



The Secretary-Treasurer read the Minutes of the last meeting, the Financial 

 Report, and the Reports of the Quebec and Toronto Branches ; on motion 

 they were adopted as read. Letters of apology for non-attendance at the 

 Meeting were read from various members who were unable to be present, and 

 a communication respecting the 17th Annual Meeting of the American 

 Association, to be held at Chicago, in August. 



The Meeting then proceeded to the election of officers for the year 1868-9, 

 with the following result : — 



President — Professor Croft, D.C.L., University of Toronto. 



Vice-President — Johnson Pettit, Esq., Grimsby; William Saunders, Esq., 

 London. 



Ex-officio, Vice-Presidents — Rev. 0. Brunei, President, Quebec Branch ; 

 J. M. Denton, Esq., President, London Branch. 



Secretary-Treasurer — Rev, C. J. Si Bethune, M.A., Credit, Ontario. 



Curator— W. IT. Ellis, Esq., B.A., Toronto. 



Council — G. J. Bowles, Esq., Secretary, Quebec Branch; E. Baynes Reed, 

 Esq., Secretary, London Branch ; J. H. Sangster, Esq., M.D., Normal School, 

 Toronto. 



Several American Entomologists of note were then nominated for election 

 as Honorary Members at the next meeting. 



After some discussion a resolution was unanimously passed respecting the 

 publication by the Society of a small periodical to be called the " Canadian 

 Entomologist," under the editorial management of tho present Secretary of 

 the Society. 



At 6 o'clock the meeting adjourned till 8 o'clock p.m., when the members 

 proceeded to the examination, comparison, and discussion of Longicorn 

 Coleoptera. Large and interesting collections of this family of insects were 

 exhibited by Messrs. Saunders, Croft, Bethune, Reed, Sangster, and Clementi, 

 representing nearly all the species enumerated in the Society's Listas Canadian, 

 and also a few not before taken in this country. A few Lepidoptera new to 

 Canada, an interesting collection of Larvae prepared by Mr. Saunders, many 

 beautiful works on Entomology including Dr. Glover's unpublished plates of 

 Lepidoptera, and other objects of interest were also exhibited; these together 



