ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



also by its Secretary, Mr. Arthur Gibson; and the report of the Quebec Branch by its 

 President, the Rev. Dr. Fyles. These reports all gave evidence of much good work 

 accomplished, and steady progress in interest and numbers. 



The Report of the Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada was read by Mr. John 

 D. Evans, of Trenton, who represented the Entomological Society at the last annual 

 meeting in May. It contained a brief record of the work that had been done during 

 the previous year. 



The Report of the Council of the Society was read by the Secretary, Mr. W. E. 

 Saunders, of London, as follows : 



Report of the Council. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario submits herewith its Annual 

 Report for the year 1897-8. 



The Council is pleased to be able to report that the three Branches of the Society 

 in Montreal, Toronto, and Quebec, are in an active and vigorous condition, much good 

 work having been done in all of them during the past season. The membership of the 

 Branches, the meetings held, and the particulars of their work will be found in their 

 respective reports. 



The twenty-eighth annual Report on economic and general Entomology was pre" 

 sented to the Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, at the end of December last, and was 

 printed and distributed at the close of the session of the Legislature. It contained 

 one hundred and four pages, and was illustrated with fifty-six wood-cuts and two full-page 

 plates, in addition to an account of the proceedings at the last annual meeting. The 

 report contains the annual address of the President, Mr. John Dearness, and the fol- 

 lowing valuable and interesting papers : " The Locusts of the Bible," by Rev. T. W. 

 Fyles ; " A Study of the Gryllidse (Crickets)," by Mr. Wm. Lochhead ; " The Value 

 of Systematic Entomological Observations " and " Protective Resemblances," by Mr. 

 J. A. Moffat ; " On Butterfly Books, by Mr. H. H. Lyman ; " Some Household Pests," 

 by Rev. 0. J. S. Bethune ; " On the Entomological Results of the Exploration of the 

 British WeBt India Islands by the British Association for the Advancement of Science," 

 by Dr. L. O. Howard; "The Work Against the Gypsy Moth, 1897," by Mr. A. H. 

 Kirkland ; " Notes on the Insects of the Year," by Messrs. Harrington, Bethune, 

 Moffat, Fyles, Gibson and Grant ; " The San Jose Scale," by Dr. James Fletcher ; and a 

 short account of the proceedings at the annual meeting of the Association of Economic 

 Entomologists. The report on the whole contains a larger number than usnal of dis- 

 tinctly practical and popular papers that cannot fail to be of great value to the com- 

 munity. These papers were specially prepared by members of the Society in order to 

 afford useful information on a great variety of insects, free as far as possible from scien- 

 tific and technical language, to farmers, gardeners, fruit-growers, and others affected by 

 the ravages of destructive insects. 



The Canadian Entomologist, the monthly magazine published by the Society, com- 

 pleted its twenty ninth volume in December last. Eleven numbers of the thirteenth 

 volume have been issued; they contain 296 pages, and are illustrated with six full-page 

 plates, one of which is colored, and a number of original wood-cuts. Among the many 

 valuable papers may be mentioned a series of articles on "The Classification of the Horn- 

 tails and Saw-flies of the World," by Mr. William H. Ashmead, and "The Descriptions 

 of a Number of New Species of Scale Insects," by Mr. T. D. A. Oockerell, and others. 



Friends of the Society will note with pleasure, that one of our officers, Mr. Wm. 

 Lochhead, has been appointed to the important position of Professor of Biology, in the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, at Guelph. The College is to be congratulated on having 

 made so wise a choice in filling the vacant position. 



