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Mr. Eeed in reply to an enquiry gave an account of what had been done during 

 the past year with regard to the Society's rooms and collections ; he stated that 

 they had frequently been opened to the public, and that many very plesant even- 

 ings had been spent among the microscopes, books and cabinets. 



DIVISION GROUPS. 



Mr. Reed drew the attention of the meeting to the changes in " The Agricul- 

 ture and Arts Act " affecting the Society made during the last session of the 

 Ontario Legislature, and moved, seconded by Dr. Bethune, " That in accordance 

 -with the provisions of section 67 of the Agriculture and Arts Act as amended in 

 1889, the agricultural divisions in Schedule A of the said Act be grouped into the 

 -following five divisions for the purpose of electing one person from each of such 

 five divisions (who shall be a resident of the district he represents) as directors 

 of the Entomological Society of Ontario : — 



Division 1 to comprise Agricultural Divisions 1, 2, 3. 



2 " " " 4, 5, 13. 



3 " " " 6, 10. 



4 " " " 7, 8, 9. 



5 " " " 11, 12. 



andjthat this grouping of the divisions be in force until otherwise altered or re 

 arranged at any annual meeting of the Society." — Carried. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year: — 



President, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., D.C.L., Port Hope ; Vice-President, 

 E. Baynes Reed, London ; Secretary-Treasurer, W. E. Saunders, London ; Libra- 

 rian, E. Baynes Reed, London ; Curator, Rowland Hill, London ; 



Directors, Division 1. — W. H. Harrington, Ottawa. 

 2.— J. D. Evans, Sudbury. 

 3. — Gamble Geddes, Toronto. 

 4 —J. Alston Moffat, Hamilton. 

 " "). — J. M. Denton, London. 



Editor of the Canadian Entomologist, Rev Dr. Bethune, Port Hope; Editing 

 i Jommittee, James Fletcher, Ottawa ; J. M. Denton, London ; Rev. T. W. Fyles, 

 Quebec ; Dr. Brodie, Toronto ; Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada, H. H. 

 Lyman. Montreal ; Auditors. J. M. Denton and E. B. Reed. 



LEPIDOPTERA AND NOMENCLATURE. 



Mr. Moffat, who has been engaged for some time past in rearranging the 

 Society's collections, spoke of the desirability of printing a new list of lepidoptera 

 for labelling purposes. 



Dr. Bethune said that he did not think it advisable to do so just now as the 

 nomenclature of the order must be considered to be in a somewhat transition 

 state ; he thought that after Mr. Scudder's magnificent work on the butterflies 

 was completed, and students had time to master its contents, there would be 



