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KEPOKT FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO TO 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



BY H. H. LYMAN, DELEGATE. 



As delegate from the Entomological Society of Ontario, it is again for the 

 third time my duty to submit a short report of the work and progress of the 

 Society during the past year, and I have much pleasure in saying that the Society 

 continues to prosper and to maintain its high position among the scientific 

 institutions of the Dominion and the continent. 



The monthly magazine of the Society, the Canadian Entomologist, has been 

 regularly and promptly issued during the past year and fully maintains its well 

 known high character. The volume for 1889, which was the twenty-first volume, 

 contained the usual 2:tO pages of reading matter, and had also one plate. The 

 contributors numbered thirty-four and the articles were quite up to the usual 

 standard of interest. One new genus, thirteen new species and seven new varie- 

 ties of various orders were described in the volume,' which also contained the 

 complete life-histories of four species and partial ones of eight others. A series 

 of papers on popular and economic entomology were also published during the 

 year. 



The annual report of the Society for 1889 to the Minister of Agriculture for 

 Ontario has been published and contains many interesting papers of much 

 importance to agriculturists, besides the usual report of the annual meeting 

 and of the finances of the Society. 



The annual meeting of the Society was held in Toronto on September 3rd, 

 during the meeting in that city of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, which afforded our members the pleasure of meeting some of the 

 distinguished entomologists of the neig'hbouring republic whose presence also 

 added much interest to the meeting of our Society. 



Our members also enjoyed the pleasure of attending the meetings of the 

 Entomological Club of the American Association, presided over by our then 

 President, Mr. Fletcher. 



During the progress of these meetings it was resolved to form an " Associa- 

 tion of Official Economic Entomologists " for the United States and Canada, 

 which was accordingly organized and officers duly elected. 



This movement is likely to have a very beneficial effect in securing greater 

 co-operation among entomologists in official positions, and the annual meetings 

 with the interchange of members' views cannot fail to be productive of much 

 good. The library of our Society is in excellent order and was reported at the 

 annual meeting as containing 1,052 volumes. 



On account of certain provisions of " The Agriculture and Arts Act " of 

 Ontario, recently passed, it was found necessary to make certain changes in the 

 council of the Society, as the Act provides that all societies which receive aid 

 from the Ontario Government must be governed by a board of directors who 

 are residents of the agricultural divisions which they represent, the Entomolo- 

 gical Society being permitted to group the thirteen agricultural divisions into 

 five with one director for each. This Act will of course prevent any member of 

 the Society residing out of Ontario holding any of the more important positions 

 in the gift of the Society. 



