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The following oflBcers for the ensuing year were duly elected : 



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. ^ 



Librarian — 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 Moflat, Hamilton. 



" 5 — J. M. Denton, London. 



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

 Editing Committee — James Fletcher, Ottawa ; J. M. Denton, London ; 



Rev. T. W. Fyles, South Quebec ; Dr. Brodie, Toronto. 

 Delegate to the Royal Society of Canada — H. H. Lyman, Montreal. 

 Auditors — J. M. Denton and E. B. Reed, London. 



Early last month our Society, on the suggestion of the President, resolved to 

 extend its field of operations by permitting the formation of sections for the 

 study of other branches of Natural History, and sections have already been 

 formed in Botany, Ornithology, Geology, and Microscopy, and joint field meetings 

 of all the sections will be held regularly during the summer. This movement 

 will, it is anticipated, strengthen the Society by bringing in many additional 

 members. It is also hoped that arrangements may be effected to keep the rooms 

 of the Society open daily. 



The Montreal Branch, of which I have the honour to be President, continues 

 I am happy to say in a prosperous condition. A number of new members have 

 joined during the past year, and the monthly meetings have been regularly held 

 and have been usually well attended. 



Mr. Scudder's magnificent work on the Butterflies of New England, to 

 which reference was made last year, was completed last October, and its issue 

 marks an epoch in the history of North American Entomology. 



The placing by Parliament during the past session, of books which have 

 been published for twenty or more years upon the free list, is a measure of great 

 importance to entomologists, as it removes a very burdensome tax upon men 

 whose studies are seldom remunerative in a pecuniary sense, and will tend to 

 encourage the bringing into the country of many valuable works upon this science 

 which would not otherwise have been done. 



REPORT OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH. 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the Montreal Branch was held at the 

 residence of Mr. Lyman on May 23rd, 1890, at 8 o'clock, p.m. 



The following report of the Council was then submitted by the President : 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH OF THE ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The Council in presenting their report for the year 1889-90,, can state with pleasure that the past year 

 has been one of progress for the Branch, no less than six new members having been elected during the 

 year. 



The names of those added to our roll are Messrs. Chas. Jackson, P. M. Dawson, E. F. Baynes, 

 Alfred (rriffin, G. M. Edwards, and W. C. Adams ; but of these Mr. Dawson has recently left Montreal- 

 to pursue his studies elsewhere. 



