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purposes, and the vigour and zeal of its executive, are all matters upon 
which we may well congratulate its President, Directors and Members. 
That it may go on and prosper, and extend its work throughout our land, 
till every resident of the Dominion enjoys the fruit of his own vine and 
his own fruit-tree, is our most hearty aspiration. 
During the past year but little has occurred in an Entomological point 
of view that calls for especial notice on this occasion. <A year ago I 
- ventured to call your attention to the subject of Specific and Generic 
Nomenclature, which has been so unpleasantly exciting the minds of 
Entomologists both here and almost everywhere else. My remarks, I was 
gratified to find, elicited a good deal of discussion in the pages of the 
CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, and brought forth a very able paper upon the 
subject from the pen of Mr. W, H. Edwards, of West Virginia. The 
question, however, has by no means yet been set at rest and will no doubt 
continue to exercise us all for some time to come. At the Dubuque 
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a 
sub-section of Entomology was formed, and a committee of its adherents 
specially appointed to consider and report upon a series of rules upon 
nomenclature. Unhappily—owing to various circumstances—no report 
was drawn up, though, I must in justice state, that my friend Mr. C. V, 
Riley, of St. Louis, took a great deal of pains to elicit the views of the 
members and to draw up some conclusions from them. Last month, at 
the Portland meeting of the Association—which, to my very great disap- 
pointment, unavoidable engagements prevented me from attending—a 
new committee was appointed to re-consider the subject, and we trust that 
some definite rules will have been decided upon by its members before 
the meeting of next year at Hartford, Conn. 
You will all, I have no doubt, be gratified to learn that, upon the 
suggestion of the sub-section of Entomology, the American Association 
unanimously passed a resolution inviting our Entomological Society of 
Ontario, as well as the American Entomological Society, to hold a general 
meeting of our members at Hartford next year during their annual session. 
I trust that this invitation will be cordially accepted and that a large 
number of us may there meet our American friends and enlarge and 
strengthen those cordial feelings of scientific brotherhood which have so 
long pleasantly existed between us. I may add, as a notable token of 
the estimation in which our branch of science is now held, that the 
Association will meet next year under the presidency of our ablest 
American Entomologist—Dr. J. L. Ieconte, of Philadelphia. 
