4-2 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Thub8day, October 22nd. 

 Morning Session. 



The society met at 9.30 o'clock, the President occupying the chair, and proceeded with 

 the reception of the reports of the several sections of the society and other matters of a 

 business character. 



The following report of the Geological Section was read by its secretary, Mr. John 

 Law : — 



Report op the Geological Section of the Entomological Society for the 



year 1895-6. 



The members of this section beg to submit the following report for the past year : 



Regular meetings were held weekly during the year, with a fair attendance. There 

 has been no great increase of membership, but we look forward to our future place of 

 meeting in the new building of the Y. M. 0. A. as a means of Stirling up our members 

 to increased action in matters relating to the mineral wealth of our country and the 

 welfare of the local section. 



Additions have been made from time to time to our individual collections obtained 

 from trips to outside places during the season. Our hopes for forming a central collec- 

 tion have not yet materialized owing to the failure of the effort to obtain the only rooms 

 suitable for that purpose in the new public library building. This Section is pleased to 

 state, however, that a collection of minerals has been presented to the free library, 

 through the influence of Sir John Oarling, by the Dominion Government. It is now 

 accessible to our members, having been recently arranged and classified by the chairman 

 of the section ; this is putting into effect what was suggested in our last year's report } 

 viz t , " That it would be a great advantage to students of mineralogy if some steps could 

 be taken by which the small number of geological and natural history societies in the 

 Province could be provided with suitable collections of accurately named specimens of 

 the chief economic minerals of the Dominion." A collection of minerals at the Western 

 University is also available. 



A number of places of geological interest' have been visited by one or more of our 

 members during the past season. A stroll through the Niagara district from Grimbsy 

 to Hamilton afforded a collection of fossils from the prevailing rocks in that vicinity, 

 viz., Niagara, Clinton, Medina, the upper Silurian formation. Other plaoes visited were 

 Owen Sound, Kettle and Stony Points (Lake Huron), Forest, St. Thomas, Sault Ste. 

 Marie, Petosky, St. Ignace and Mackinac Island (Michigan), and Bruce Mines on the 

 north channel. 



Collections were made from each of these locations, affording the section plenty of 

 new material for the coming winter's work. Valuable papers have been read from time 

 to time before the section on natural history, astronomy and physiology. Some four to 

 five lectures were also given on psychological subjects by the Rev. Mr. Falling. 



A number of second year students of the Western University are also taking up the 

 study of geology and mineralogy with the section. 



Signed on behalf of the Geological Section by 



S. Woolverton, Chairman. 



John Law, Secretary. 



