SIS ENTOMOLOGICAI, SOCrETY. 



aurious tines of tbe middle ages ; it is that Theodore is one of the most remark- 

 able men of this century, a man of genius buried in the midst of barbarism, and' 

 whom a fatality, sometimes merited, urges on to an abyss. The conviction 

 ■which I wuld like to give to serious minds is, that a people, which has had the- 

 energy to preserve in the depths of Africa, and surrounded by the double bar- 

 barism of MBSsulmaas and pagans, so many great and Boble things, to begin by 

 Christianity, deserves the effective and restoring protection of Europe. 



To remove paltry rivalries, narrow questions of sects, or of pretended acts of 

 legitimacy, to aid Abyssinia in recovering order and unity without despotism, to* 

 obtain an energetic government, enlightened and friendly to Europe, to seek 

 within herself the elements of her renovation, following the programme (too long 

 forgotten) of Theodore II. Here is certainly a policy liberal and noble, by no 

 means chimerical and sentimental, with all due deference to those who regret 

 that France saved Greece in 1827. This policy has never been lost sight of by 

 the two representatives of France and England whom chance and their own desire 

 have connected with the cotemporaneous affairs of Abyssinia. I will add that 

 these very misfortunes have in no degree altered their faith in the future of & 

 nation which has not without some secret design of Providence remained alone 

 free and christian in the midst of this degraded and lost Africa. Let me be- 

 permitted to sny so at least for Eoyself^ 



GUILLAITME LEJEAK 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



- The annual general meeting of the Society was held in the rooms of th& 

 Canadian Institute, on Thursday, February 16th, at 3 o'clock, p.m ; the Presi- 

 dent, Wm. Saunders, Esq., in the chair. The report of the Council for the past 

 year was read and accepted ; as were also the reports from the branch societies 

 at Quebec, C. E , and London, C. W. ; from all of which it is gratifying to learn 

 that the Society is making very satisfactory progress. The following gentle- 

 men were proposed, and unanimously elected members : — James Bovell, Esq.,. 

 M.D., Professor of Physiology, Trinity College, Toronto ; Rev. W. A. Johnson, 

 Weston, C.W. • John Macoun, Esq., Belleville ; Johnson Pettit, Esq., Grimsby ; 

 Rev. W. F. Clark, Editor of the Canada Farmer, Toronto; C. W. Lloyd, Esq, 

 H. M. 16th Regiment, Toronto ; J. E. Orange, Esq., H. M. 16th Regiment, To- 

 ronto. Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S. of the British Museum, London, England, 

 was elected an Honorary member ; and Beverley R. Morris, Esq., M.D., London^ 

 England (late of Toronto), a corresponding member. 



The following donations to the cabinet were announced, and the thanks of 

 the Society ordered to be transmitted to the donors : — From F. Walker, Esq., 

 F.L.S., a very large and valuable collection of European Insects, comprising 

 several thousand specimens, chiefly of the orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and 

 Neuroptera, with a few Hymenaptera. From Rev. F. 0. Morris, Nunburnholm®^ 



