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After some discussion Mr. Saunders moved, seconded by Mr. E. B. Reed " That the 



Entomological Society of Ontario has heard with much pleasure the above resolutions of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, and will gladly do everything in its 

 power to carry out the proposed arrangements and facilitate the annual meeting of American 

 Entomologists." 



" That we hereby tender our hearty thanks to the American Association for their cor- 

 dial invitation, and that the Secretary be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to the 

 above Association." 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Annual Address of the President of the Entomological Society of 



Ontario, 1873. 



To the members of the Entomological Society of Ontario : 



Gentlemen, — Ten years have now gone by since a few of us met at the house of Pro- 

 fessor Croft, in Toronto, and organized this Society. We commenced with less than five and 

 twenty members, and now our Secretary informs us that we have over three hundred names 

 upon our roll. A twelve fold increase in a decade of years is certainly an evidence of pro 

 gress upon which we may well congratulate ourselves, and which ought assuredly to stim^ilate 

 all our members to use their utmost exertions for the maintenance and improvement of th 

 Society. Those of us who from year to year have been entrusted by you with positions e 

 office and duty in the Society, cannot but feel that it is for the best interests of our institof 

 tion that more of its members should be led to take an active part in its work, and thus secuu- 

 more efficiency in all our departments, and more certainty of a permanent development of re 

 our operations. Hitherto the work has fallen upon a few of us, and we have endeavoured to 

 perform it as efficiently and heartily as we can ; but we find that year after year our own pro- 

 fessional and other duties make increased demands upon our time and attention, so that with 

 all the desire in the world to devote ourselves to our favourite branch of Natural Science and 

 the operations of the Entomological Society, we are unable to do so to the same extent as in 

 earlier years. On this account — not from any diminution of zeal and interest on our own 

 part — we are most anxious that more of you should take your share in the work, and aid us in 

 maintaining unimpaired the good reputation that the Society has already achieved. Each one, 

 we are sure, can do something, and the united efforts of us all must assuredly be productive 

 •of satisfactory and permanent results. 



Our sister Society — the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario — we rejoice to see is 

 rapidly growing in public appreciation and favour ; its members' list of over 3000 names, 

 its well-attended meetings in various parts of the country ; its judicious distributions of fruit 

 for experimental purposes, and the vigour and zeal of its executive, are all matters upon which 

 we may well congratulate its President, Directors and Members. That it may go on and 

 prosper, and extend its work throughout our land, till every resident of the Dominion enjoys 

 the fruit of his own vine and his own fruit-tree, is our most hearty aspiration. 



During the past year but little has occurred in an Entomological point of view that calls 

 for especial notice on this occasion. A year ago I ventured to call your attention to the sub- 

 ject of Specific and Generic Nomenclature, which has been so unpleasantly exciting the minds 

 of Entomologists both here and almost everywhere else. My remarks, I was gratified to find 

 elicited a good deal of discussion in the pages of the Canadian Entomologist, and brought 

 forth a very able paper upon the subject from the pen of Mr. W. H. Edwards,of West Virginia. 

 The question, however, has by no means yet been set at rest, and will no doubt continue to 

 exercise us all for some time to come. At the Dubuque Meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, a sub-section of Entomology was formed, and a committee of 

 its adherents specially appointed to consider and report upon a series of rules upon nomen- 

 clature. Unhappily — owing to various circumstances — no report was drawn up, though I 

 must in justice state that my friend Mr. C. V. Riley, of St. Louis, took a great deal of pains 

 to elicit the views of the members and to draw up some conclusions from them. Last month, 

 at the Portland meeting of the Association — which, to my very great disappointment, unavoid- 

 able engagements prevented me from attending — a new committee was appointed tore-consider 

 the subject, and we trust that some definite rules will have been decided upon by its mem- 

 bers before the meeting of next year at Hartford, Conn. 



