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Among those of special interest are : — 



Rolleston's Forms of Animal Life. 

 Claus db Sedgwick's Text-Book of Zoology. 

 Jordan's Manual of the Vertebrates. 

 Merrian's Mammals of the Adirondack^. 

 Ridgeway's Waterbirds of North America. 



" Manual of N.A. Birds. 



TheA.O.U. Code and Check-List of N.A. Birds. 

 Cone's Key to N.A. Birds. 

 Capen's Oology of New England. 

 Sachs' Lectures on the Physiology of Plants. 

 JDe Bary's Lectures on Bacteria. 



Comparative Morphology of Fungi, Mycetozoa and Bacteria. 

 Bower <fs Vine's Practical Botany. 

 Henstoris Origin of Floral Structures. 

 Wood's Class-Book of Botany. 

 Bessey's Botany. 

 Culpepper's Complete Herbal. 



The books are in good order and well protected, and due record is kept of all books 

 borrowed. 



It will be necessary that additional cases should shortly be provided. 



The Canadian Entomologist has been regularly issued and mailed, and the back 

 volumes and numbers are carefully stored and made easily available when required. 



The electrotypes and wood cuts are in due order, and it is suggested that sheets be 

 prepared for use of those requiring them, shewing the various orders properly classified 

 and arranged. 



I would submit for the consideration of the members the great desirability, in the 

 interests of the Society, that an effort should, if possible, be made to have the rooms 

 open at stated times for free reference and inspection by the public. 



The cabinets have been thoroughly gone over, and the Lepidoptera rearranged, since 

 their return from England, and printed lists of Lepidoptera have been prepared and 

 distributed to members, shewing the desiderata required to fill up and complete the 

 collection. 



Respectfully submitted. 



E. BAYNES REED, 



Librarian. 



REPORT TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



As delegate from the Entomological Society of Ontario, I have much pleasure in 

 submitting a concise report of its work and progress during the past year. 



The Society, although nominally an Ontario institution, and largely supported by a 

 liberal annual grant from that Province, is composed of members scattered all over the 

 Dominion, besides having associate members throughout the United States, as well as 

 scattered all over the world. 



For the past fifteen years a branch has been maintained in Montreal, and though 

 we have there suffered a severe blow during the past year in the death of our esteemed 

 President, Mr. Gr. J. Bowles, an enthusiastic entomologist, and for several years a mem- 

 ber of the Editorial Committee of the Canadian Entomologist, I have great hopes of our 

 being able to keep the branch in active operation. 



