ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



in a very few years. Our Canadian Department of Agriculture has taken the alarm, 

 and posters, drawn up by Dr. Fletcher have been widely distributed to draw the atten- 

 tion of fruit-growers to the danger. 



But Entomology has not only to deal with insects, more or lesB obnoxious to man ; 

 it brings to our notice the beneficial labors of hundreds of other kinds. It holds up to 

 our admiration the marvellous beauty with which the Creator has gifted many of his 

 lesser creatures, and it brings home to us the teaching that " His tender mercies are over 

 all His works." As it is in grace, so it is in nature, " He that seeketh findeth." The 

 works of the Lord are great, sought out by all them that have pleasure therein. 



Report of the Council In presenting this, the first annual report of the Quebec 

 branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, your Council finds that the branch, 

 although not eleven months in existence, has succeded very well in the objects for 

 which it was instituted, viz. : the inculcating and promoting a lively interest in ento- 

 mology, the collection and classifying of specimens, and bringing the members together 

 in social intercourse, through entomological excursions, lectures and gatherings at each 

 other's houses. 



Our membership is now twenty-six, viz. : eighteen adults and eight juniors. We 

 have grounds for hope that, during the present year, ifc will be largely increased. 



Meetings have been held monthly, with exception of the midsummer months, in 

 Convocation Hall of Morrin College, by kind permission of the College authorities, for 

 which courtesy our sincere thanks are due. 



Papers have been read and lectures illustrated by diagrams, delivered in the same 

 Hall, which have been numerously attended. Instruction has also been given as to the 

 killing, mounting and preserving of specimens, which has been much availed of ; and we 

 are glad to see it, especially amongsfc our Junior members. Several nicely-mounted 

 specimens, taken during the summer campaign by members of our branch, have been 

 shewn at our meetings and evince keen interest in the study of entomology on the part of 

 almost all. 



Papers have been read and lectures given on land beetles, two winged flies, flesh 

 flies, mycetophylidse (mushroom flies), bombilidEe, parasites, especially those infesting 

 cattle, horses and sheep, and the best means of their extermination (most useful informa- 

 tion to the farmer and grazier), as well as the tiger moths — Arctiida? — Colias interior, 

 etc. The caterpillars have not been forgotten and our " woolly-bear " friend, " Phragma- 

 tobia rubricosa," as he sturdily scampers over the snowdrift, lots us know that life is by 

 no means lacking in even the smaller things of creation during a Canadian winter, for he 

 early shows himself, a harbinger of spring. 



The want of a proper cabinet for the conservation of insects arose, and through the 

 kindness of a few of the members and friends of the Association, a very handsome one 

 has been obtained, which is placed in Morrin College, and has already received its first 

 instalment of insects. 



Before closing what must necessarily be but a brief report, owing to the short time 

 since the organization of the branch, we must call your attention to an item very interest- 

 ing to our hive of workers, viz : the treasurer's report, which shows that, after remitting 

 to the parent society the necessary honorarium and paying expenses, we have, out of our 

 subscription list, a balance in hand of $6.70. 



Joseph Eveleigh Trefprt, 



Secretary. 

 The officers elected for 1898 were : 



President — Rev. Thomas W. Fyles ; Vice-President — Miss Macdonald ; Council — 

 Hon. Richard Turner, Mr. J. Eveleigh Treffry, Prof. H. Walters, Mrs. R. Turner, Miss 

 Bickell, Miss B. Winfield ; Secretary-Treasurer — Lt.-Col. Crawford Lindsay; Curator — 

 Professor H. Walter?. 



