ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF ONTAKIO, 1898. 



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

 at Montreal, in the Museum of the Natural History Society, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 November 8th and 9th, in order that the members might join in the celebration of the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the formation of the Montreal Branch. At the request of 

 the President, Mr. Henry H. Lyman, the chair was occupied by the^Rev. Dr. Bethune, 

 of Port Hope. 



The meeting was called to order at 2-30 p.m. on Tuesday, when the following mem- 

 bers were present : Dr. Wm. Saunders, Director, and Dr. James Fletcher, Entomologist 

 and Botanist, Experimental Farms, Ottawa ; Messrs. John Dearness and W. E. Saunders 

 (Secretary) London ; Mr. Arthur Gibson, Toronto ; Rev. O J. S. Bethune, Port Hope ; 

 Mr. J. D. Evans, Trenton ; Rev. Dr. Fyles, South Quebec ; Messrs. H. H. Lyman, A. 

 F. Winn, J. T. Hausen, Lachlan Gibb, M. Waring Davis, G. C. Dunlop, D. Brainerd, 

 A. E. Norris, H. Brainerd, J. B. Williams, Chas. Stephenson, Rev. Dr. Campbell, and 

 others, Montreal 



The President read letters expressing regret at their inability to attend the meeting, 

 from the following prominent American entomologists : Dr. L. O. Howard, Director of 

 the Division of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.O. ; Rev. 

 Dr. W. J. Holland, Chancellor of the Western University of' Pennsylvania, Allegheny, 

 Pa. ; Professor F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio ; Professor M. V. Slingerland, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



The report of the Librarian and Curator, Mr. J. Alston Moffat, was read by the 

 Chairman, showing 47 additions to the Library, which make the total number of volumes 

 1,553, and satisfactory work in the increase of the collections. 



The Chairman next read the report of the Treasurer, and explained that; the large 

 balance in hand on the 1st of September last, when the books were closed, would be 

 greatly reduced by the payments that became due between that date and the end of the 

 year. A discussion upon cork and pins then ensued. Dr. Fyles exhibited a sample of a 

 substitute for cork that had been placed upon the market. Dr. Fletcher enquired 

 why the quality of the cork recently supplied by the Society was so poor. The Secretary 

 replied that he thought a better quality could be procured by paying a higher price for 

 it. Dr. Fletcher considered that we should hav the best obainable, as the present 

 supply was unsatisfactory. Mr. Lyman exhibited some specimens of English-made steel 

 pins, both gilt and black enamelled, and the Secretar was authorized to procure a 

 moderate supply in order that the members might use t em if they wished. 



The Report of the Botanical Section was then read by the Chairman. Dr. Fletcher 

 made enquiries as to Cuscuta epithymum, a dodder which has been found upon clover 

 in the County of Middlesex. Mr. Dearness assured him that it had been correctly 

 identified. He then said that it was a true annual, growing from seed each year. 



The Report of the Microscopical and Geological Sections were next read by the 

 Chairman, who remarked that London had become a headquarters of scientific research 

 for the western peninsula of Ontario, in consequence of the good work done by the 

 Society and its sections. It was certainly an unique matter that so many branches 

 devoted to different departments of science should be affiliated together in connection 

 with the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



The Reports of the local Branches of the Society were next read ; that of the 

 Montreal Branch by its Secretary, Mr. Lachlan Gibb ; the report of the Toronto Branch 



* By an error it is stated in the last annual Report that "the thirty-fifth annual meeting " was held 

 n 1897. As the Society was founded in 1863, this is manifestly a mistake. 

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