182 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ANNUAL ADDRESS 
OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, 1873. 
To the Members of the Entomological Society of Ontario : 
GENTLEMEN,—Ten years have now gone by since a few of us met at 
the house of Professor Croft, in Toronto, and organized this Society. We 
commenced with less than five and twenty members, and now our Secretary 
informs us that we have over three hundred names upon our roll. <A 
twelve-fold increase in a decade of years is certainly an evidence of 
progress upon which we may well congratulate ourselves, and which ought 
assuredly to stimulate all our members to use their utmost exertions for 
the maintenance and improvement of the Society. These of us who from 
year to year have been entrusted by you with positions of office and duty 
in the Society, cannot but feel that it is for the best interests of our 
institution that more of its members should be led to take an active part 
in its work, and thus secure more efficiency in all our departments, and 
more certainty of a permanent developement of all our operations. 
Hitherto the work has fallen upon a few of us, and we have endeavoured 
to perform it as efficiently and heartily as we can ; but we find that year 
after year our own professional and other duties make increased demands. 
upon our time and attention, so that with all the desire in the world to 
devote ourselves to our favourite branch of Natural Science and the 
operations of the Entomological Society, we are unable to do so to the 
same extent as in earlier years. On this account—not from any diminution 
of zeal and interest on our own part—we are most anxious that more of 
you should take your share in the work and aid us in maintaining unim- 
paired the good reputation that the Society has already achieved. Each 
one, we are sure, can do something, and the united efforts of us all must 
assuredly be productive of satisfactory and permanent results. 
Our sister Society—the Fruit Growers’ Association of Ontario—we 
rejoice to see is rapidly growing in public appreciation and favour ; its 
members’ list of over 3000 names, its well-attended meetings in various 
parts of the country, its judicious distributions of fruit for experimental 
