STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER FOR THE YEAR ENDING 



OCTOBER 24th, 1887. 



Receipts. 



Balance from previous year $ 100 57 



Members' fees, sale of Entomologist, etc 144 95 



Provincial grant, 1887 1,000 00 



Collectors' material — cork, pins, etc 59 74 



Interest on Savings' Bank account 7 18 



$1,312 44 

 Disbursements. 



Canadian Entomologist, printing, paper, stationery, etc $ 591 77 



Library account , 110 23 



Expenses of Report for 1886 < 133 10 



Engraving 166 22 



Annual grant to Editor 100 00 



Rent 80 00 



Insurance 25 00 



Sundries — postage, telegraph, etc 22 39 



Balance in hand 83 73 



,312 44 



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, eighty-three dollars and 

 seventy-three cents. 



H. P. BOCK, 1 . ,. 



W. E. SAUNDERS, f Audltors - 

 London, Ont., October 24th, 1887. 



MEETING OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario, was held on May 31st, 1887, when the following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year : — President, G. J. Bowles ; Vice-President, H. H. Lyman ; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, F. B. Caultield ; Council, W. H. Smith, J. G. Jack, J. F. Hausen and R. C. 

 Holden. 



The reports of the Council and Secretary-Treasurer were read, and on motion, 

 adopted. 



Mr. Bowles showed a box of Lepidoptera collected at Sudbury, by Mr. J. D. Evans, 

 several of which were new to the members. 



Mr. Lyman read a list of Hymenoptera and Diptera, taken at Hudson's Bay, by Dr. 

 Robert Bell. 



Mr. Caultield read the following report of the Council for the past year : — 



In presenting their fourteenth annual report, your Council regrets that owing to 

 unfortunate circumstances, it is not so satisfactory as in former years. 



The Society has sustained, since our last annual meeting, a great loss in the lamented 

 death of Mr. Wm. Shaw, a member who enjoyed the highest esteem of his fellow entomo- 

 logists as a man, and whose talents and energy warranted the expectation of a brilliant 

 career as a naturalist. 



During the past year, the absence of several of our most active members from the 

 city, has resulted in but little collecting being done. Mr. Caulfield, however, has success- 



