ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the Society was held in a lecture room of the new 

 Biological Building of the University of Toronto on Tuesday, September 3rd, 1889, 

 The President, Mr. James Fletcher, of Ottawa, took the chair at 11 o'clock a.m. 

 The following members were present: Mr. E Baynes Reed and Mr. J. M. Denton T 

 London; Mr. J. Alston Moffatt, Hamilton: Dr. Brodie, Dr. White, Masters O. and 

 W. White, Mr. Gamble Geddes. Mr. A. Blue (Department of Agriculture), Toronto; 

 Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope; Mr. W. H. Harrington and Mr. R. Bell, Ottawa ; 

 Mr. H. H. Lyman, Montreal; Rev. "T. W. Fyles, Quebec; Rev. W. R. Burman r 

 Winnipeg ; Mr. L. O. Howard, Assistant Entomologist, Department of Agriculture,. 

 Washington. 



The minutes of the previous meeting having been printed and circulated 

 among the members, the reading of them was dispensed with, and they were duly 

 confirmed. 



The President then delivered his annual address in which he referred 

 especially to the chief insect attacks of the year. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



GENTLEMEN, — The present year has been one of great scientific interest in 

 Canada. The event of greatest importance is, of course, the meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, the participation in which 

 we have just enjoyed. This has given us an opportunity of meeting personally 

 many of the leading Entomologists of the country, who have long been known to 

 all of us through their writings. The late deliberations of the entomological and 

 botanical clubs have been of exceptional interest,. and 1 feel proud that the mem- 

 bers of our society should have taken so active a part in making these meetings 

 successful. 



Since I last had the honour of addressing you, the ravages of various kinds of 

 injurious insects have demanded our attention. I will briefly draw your attention 

 to some of these, so that there may be some discussion to-day upon the habits of 

 the insects causing them, and thus what have been found to be the best remedies 

 in the experience of those who have inve-tigated them will be brought out. 

 We discussed last year the injuries of the grass-eating thrips (Phlceothrips poapha- 

 gws). Continued observations during the past summer have shown that this 

 insect is very widespread, and that although its attacks occasionally occur on 

 other grasses they are chiefly confined to June grass (Poa pratensvi) early in 

 June, and later in the month, to timothy (Phleum pratense). This attack is always 

 most severe upon old meadows, and for the present the only remedy we can sug- 

 gest is the ploughing up of those areas and laying them down to some other crop. 

 Oats in central Ontario have been severely attacked by another yellowish species 

 belonging to the Thripidas. This insect has been submitted to Mr. Pergande, 

 through the courtesy of the United States' Entomologist, and declared to be an 

 undescribed species. The injury was perpetrated by the perforation and abortion 

 of the oat flowers just before they left the sheath, by which they turned white, 



