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America, Part I, in 1866, his New Species of North American Coleoptera, in the same 

 year, and Part II of both of these, published in 1873, together with the Catalogue of 

 Orthoptera of North America, by S. H. Scudder in 1868, all printed by the Smithsonian 

 Institution, show an amazing amount of activity among entomologists, during a decade 

 when there was supposed to be little time for science, except that of war. Dr. LeConte 

 himself dropped his studies, and went to the front to care for the sick and wounded, and 

 give to the country his professional services. Dr. Breckenridge Clemens had published 

 his admirable Synopsis of North American Sphingidse in 1859, in the Journal of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, and also during the same year a paper on the 

 Arctiidee in the Proceedings of the same institution. Others had published papers in the 

 publications of the American Philosophical Society, the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, and the New York Lyceum of Natural History. The various Explorations and 

 Surveys, carried forward by the United States Government, for various purposes, fur- 

 nished opportunities for making collections in the newer portions of the country, and the 

 folio volumes dealing with the results of these expeditions are filled with valuable ento- 

 mological papers. 



In 1861 the Entomological Society of Philadelphia began the publication of its 

 proceedings, the Society itself having been chartered in 1862, and six volumes' of these 

 were issued prior to 1866, when it was changed to the American Entomological Society, 

 the transactions of which have been published quarterly up to date. In the first series, 

 as above indicated, are found exhaustive papers by all of the most prominent entomolo- 

 gists of the times. In the first volume will be found the name of William Oouper, and 

 in the second that of William Saunders, among the contributors. Surely it cannot be 

 said that there was any lack of activity during the fifth and sixth decades of the present 

 century, among technical workers in entomology. But this is by no means all that had 

 been accomplished. In 1862 there appeared, in the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, 

 a list of thirty- six persons, resident of Canada, who were interested in entomology, the list 

 having been prepared by Dr. Bethune and Mr. William Saunders. On September 26th, 

 1862, ten of the gentlemen, whose names appeared in the above mentioned list, met in 

 Toronto to consider the matter of a definite organization, This, however, was not 

 accomplished until April 16th, 1863, when the Entomological Society of Canada was 

 organized. The September meeting in Toronto was the first meeting of entomologists to 

 be held in Canada, and you will pardon me the disgression if I call attention to the fact 

 that on August 30th, 1889, there was also in Toronto another entomological society born, 

 viz , the Association of Economic Entomologists, a body that was destined to include in 

 its membership, not only every American economic entomologist, but every foreign 

 worker in the applied science. No other society or organization has done so much to 

 bring the workers in the world, in the science of applied entomology, together, in influence 

 and effort, as has this one. No similar organization of the kind exists, and it has been 

 of immense advantage to workers in the applied science in almost every country where 

 entomology is known as a science. To Toronto then, must go the honor of being the 

 birthplace of two of the most important entomological organizations in America. The 

 Canadian Entomological Society, after seven years, was incorporated in 1871, under the 

 name of " The Entomological Society of Ontario," and I esteem it a high honor to be 

 allowed to address you at this its thirty-sixth annual meeting. The Quebec and London 

 branches were established in 1864, and that of Montreal in 1873. In 1864 the newly 

 organized Society published a list of 144 species of Canadian lepidoptera, followed in 

 1865 by a list of 350 additional species. In 1867, a list of 1231 species of coleoptera 

 was issued, being ten times the number enumerated by Mr. Couper twelve years prev- 

 iously. In August, 1868, was issued the first number of " The Canadian Entomologist." 

 Other similar periodicals have come and gone, with but two exceptions, viz , " Psyche " 

 and " Entomological News," the first of which appeared in 1874, published in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, and the second in 1890, and published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 Thus, the Canadian Entomologist spans almost one-third of the century of which I am 

 speaking, and its columns have, from the first, been filled with original matter by almost 

 every American entomologist of note living during this entire period. Its pages have 



