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The Treasurer submitted his report, and it was moved by G. C. Dunlop, seconded 

 by G Kearley, That the reports of the Council and the Secretary-Treaburcr be received 

 and adopted. Uarried. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 



President — H. H. Lyman. 



Vice-President — A. F. Winn. 



Secretary-Treasurer — Lachlan Gibb. 



Council — G. C. Dunlop, G. Kearley. 



The President then delivered his annual address in which he dwelt upon the neces- 

 sity of more of the members taking an active part in preparing pipers and sustaining 

 the interest of the meetings. He also drew attention to some of the problems in connec- 

 tion with the Lepidoptira which awaited solution, some of which the members ought to. 

 be able to get some light on during the reason. 



Mr. G. Kearley, in moving a vote of thanks, suggested that the list of problems 

 should be printed and a copy sent to each member. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Lachlan Gibb, 



Secretary. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH. 



Gentlemen, — Tn most societies it is usual for the President to deliver an annual 

 address at the annual meeting and this custom can, I think, be adopted in our Branch 

 "without disadvantage. 



From the reports of the Council and of the Secretary-Treasurer it can be seen that 

 the Branch has had a reasonably successful season, in regard both to the number of 

 papers read and to the large number of new members who have joined us. 



There is one point, however, to which I would earnestly invite your attention and 

 that is that the labour of providing papers for the meetings is left too much to the 

 President and I feel that I do not receive the assistance in keeping up the interest of 

 the meetings that any President has the right to expect from the members. 



With the single exception of Mr. Winn's "Note on Adlopos Titan" read at the 

 October meeting, all the papers were contributed by me or secured by me from outside 

 friends like Mr. Fvles and Mr. F-etcher. 



It seems to me that every member might do something to contribute to the interest 

 of the meetings. 



The simplest paper upon anyone's experience would at least do something to relieve 

 the annual report ot the monotonous repetition of my name as the contributor of papers. 



Subjects of discussion might be suggested and genera or groups taken up and 

 systematically studied, the members bringing together all their material in these genera 

 and verifying determinations, studying up the generic characters and so learning why a 

 particular species is placed in a particular genus. 



I doubt if any of our members can tell in what a Neonympha differs from a Satyrus 

 or an Erebia, or a Phyciodes from a Melitcea. Then more interest might be shown in 

 bringing specimens to the meetings. Specimens do not need to be rare in order to be 

 worth showing. Well-set specimens in tine condition of even the commonest species are 

 always a pleasure to look at, and it would at least show that the members were actually 

 collecting specimens. 



