ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF ONTARIO. 



1896. 



The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario was held 

 in its rooms, in Victoria Hall, London, on Wednesday and Thursday, October 21st and 

 22nd, 1896, the President, Mr. J. W. Dearness, of London, occupying the chair. 



The meeting was called to order at 3 o'clock p.m., on Wednesday, when the following 

 members were present : Rev. T. W. Fyles, South Quebec ; Mr. H. H. Lyman, Montreal ; 

 Mr. J. D. Evans, Trenton ; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope ; Prof. J. H. Panton, 

 Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph : Messrs W. E. Saunders (Secretary), J. A. Balk- 

 will (Treasurer), J. Alston Moffat (Curator), J. H. Bowman, H. P. Bock, B. Green, W. 

 Scarrow, T. Green, W. J. Stevenson, J. S. Pearce, J. B. Spencer, J. Law, W. Lochhead, 

 W. Percival, and Drs. Woolverton and Hotson, London, and Robert Elliott, Plover 

 Mills. Letters of apology were read from Dr. James Fletcher and W. H. Harrington, 

 Ottawa, regretting their inability to attend the meeting. 



At the request of the President the report of the Council for the past year was read 

 by Dr. Bethune. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario beg to present the following 

 report of their proceedings during the past year : 



They have much pleasure in stating that the membership of the Society has been 

 well maintained, and that there has been a gratifying increase in the members from 

 Ontario and an especially large addition in the Montreal branch, from the Province of 

 Quebec. 



The twenty-sixth annual report on Economic and General Entomology was presented 

 to the Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, in December last and was printed and distri- 

 buted at the opening of the session of the Legislature. It contained one hundred and 

 two pages, and was illustrated with thirty -four wood cuts and two full page portraits, 

 one of the late Professor C. V. Riley, the most able and distinguished Entomologist in 

 North America, who had been killed by a fall from his bicycle a few months previously, 

 and the other of Mr. William H. Edwards, author of the "Butterflies of North America," 

 the most valuable and important work of the kind ever published, — both of these gentle- 

 men were honorary members of our Society. In addition to an account of the proceedings 

 at the annual meeting, which included an interesting address on " The New Agriculture," 

 by Mr. C. 0. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, the volume contains the following 

 valuable papers : " The value of Eatomology," by Dr. James Fletcher ; " How the 

 Forest in Bedford was swept away," by Rev. T. W. Fyles; "Insect injuries of the year 

 1895," by Dr. Fletcher ; " The growth of the wings of a Luna Moth," " Observations on 

 the Season of 1895," and " Variation, with special reference to Insects," by J. A. Moffat ; 

 "Some winter insects from Swamp Moss," by W. H. Harrington; "Birds as protectors 

 of Orchards," by Mr. E. H. Forbush; "The Rocky Mountain Locust and its allies in 

 Canada," by Mr. S. H. Saudder. An abstract was also given of the proceedings of the 

 seventh annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists, together with 

 some of the papers that were of special interest and value to the general reader. 



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