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quarters of the Society ; the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST has been regularly 
issued with, we trust, no diminution in the value and interesting character 
of its contents; our Second Annual Report on Noxious and Beneficial 
Insects, prepared by Messrs. Saunders and Reed, and myself, and 
containing notices of the insects affecting the Apple, Grape, Plum, 
Currant and Gooseberry, Wheat crops, Potato, Cabbage, Cucumber, 
Melon, Pumpkin and Squash, has been duly published by the Legislature 
of Ontario, and no doubt has long since been in the hands of you all: 
Such, gentlemen, is our record for the year that is now brought toa close, 
and, having in addition, a satisfactory balance-sheet from the Treasurer, 
we feel that mutual congratulations are not out of place, and that we who 
have been honoured with official positions in the Society, can look back 
upon our efforts in its behalf with at least the agréeable ee that they 
have not been altogether in vain. 
If we turn, moreover, from our own especial interests to the condition 
and prospects of American Entomology in general, we find much to afford 
us satisfaction and encouragement. No large work, indeed, on any 
particular order of insects has appeared during the past year, but many 
valuable reports of State Entomologists and portions of serial publications 
have been issued from the press,—among the latter, I may be pardoned, I 
am sure, for especially drawing attention to the exquisite illustrations of 
North American Butterflies contained in Mr. W. H. Edwards’ invaluable 
work, which has now reached its Tenth Part. It speaks well, too, for the 
growing popularity of this branch of Natural Science, that Dr. Packard’s 
useful “Guide to the Study of Insects” has already reached a third 
edition. A pleasing recognition of American Entomological work has 
recently, | may add, been manifested in England by the publication there» 
in a collected form, of the writings of the late Dr. Brackenridge Clemens, 
on the Zineinva of North America, under the editorial supervision of Mr. 
H. T. Stainton, the well-known authority in that department of Lepidop- 
terology. 
Apart, however, from the position attained by the growth of our 
Entomological literature, the Science has this year received a recognition 
that cannot fail to be of great and permanent benefit to it. I allude to 
the formation of a special sub-section of Entomology at the recent 
meeting of the American Association for the advancement of Science. It 
will now be practicable for American Entomologists—to whatever part of 
the Continent they may belong, whether to a Province of the Dominion 
