ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, FOR THE 



YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 15th, 1884. 



Receipts. 



Balance from previous year, 1883 - $ 8 47 



Members' fees, sale of Entomologist, etc 174 94 



Provincial grant, 1884 ' 1000 00 



Collectors' material — pins, cork, etc 14 80 



Interest on Savings' Bank account 6 99 



$1205 20 



Disbursements. 



Canadian Entomologist, printing, paper, stationery, etc $446 83 



Library account 103 58 



Expenses of report for 1883, including engraving, electrotypes and. 



woodcuts 134 75 



Annual vote to Editor and Secretary 175 00 



Rent 80 00 



Caretaker 5 00 



Insurance — 2 years to Sept. 30th, 1885 ,. 32 00 



Collectors' material — cork, etc 51 92 



Expense of deputation to A. A. A. S., Philadelphia 37 00 



Sundries— postage, etc 39 76 



Balance 99 36 



$1205 20 



We certify that we have examined the above account with books and vouchers and 

 -found the same to be correct. Balance in hand and in Bank, ninety-nine dollars and 

 thirty-six cents. 



H. P. Bock, \ A ,., 



W. E. Saunders, } Aud * to ™ 

 London, Ont., Oct. 15, 1884. 



The Report of the Librarian and the Report of the Montreal Branch of the Society 

 were read. 



The delegate to the Royal Society of Canada next submitted the report which he 

 had presented to that honourable body. 



Report of the delegate of the Entomological Society of Ontario to the Royal Society 

 of Canada : 



It affords me much pleasure, as delegate from one of the Societies honoured with an 

 invitation to send a representative to the meetings of the Royal Society of Canada, to 

 report that, — 



During the past year the work of the Entomological Society of Ontario has been 

 vigorously prosecuted on the same plan as that heretofore followed with satisfactory and 

 evident results. 



The monthly organ of the Society, the Canadian Entomologist, has been regularly 

 issued, its pages having been entirely filled with original contributions from members of 

 the Society on scientific and practical entomology. The volume which closed with the 

 year 1883, No. XV., consisted of 246 cages and contained a number of papers on descrip- 

 tive entomology, embracing descriptions of no less than four new genera and sixty-seven 

 species of insects new to science : also papers on practical entomology, including life- 



