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The London Bro/nch, after due deliberation, decided this year to suspend its opera- 

 tions, and merge its work and membership in the parent Society so long as London was 

 the headquarters of the Society. This has, we are glad to say, been a source of strength 

 to the parent Society. Regular monthly meetings have been kept up, and a greater 

 degree of interest aroused. The audited Report of our financial operations will, as usual, 

 be laid before you by the Secretary-Treasurer. 



E. Baynes-Reed, 



Secretary-Treasurer . 



MONTREAL BRANCH OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 



The Eighth Annual General Meeting of this Branch was held at the residence of 

 Mr. Geo. J. Bowles, Montreal, on Tuesday, 8th of May, 1881, at 8 o'clock p.m. 

 The President read the following Report of the Council : 



EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Your Council, at the end of the eighth year since the organization of the Branch,, 

 beg to present their Annual Report. 



Eight very pleasant meetings have been held during the year, and the interest of 

 the members in the Society has been well kept up. Four new members have been added 

 to the list during the year. 



Your Council would record with regret the loss of our indefatigable Secretary, Mr. 

 G. H. Bowles, who in February last removed from this city to reside in Chicago. 



The following papers have been read before the Society during the year : 



1. " Remarks on Fajnlio Brevicauda." — By W. Couper. 



2. " The Mouth Parts of some Carnivorous and Wood-eating Beetles," with illustra- 

 tive drawings. — By G. H. Bowles. 



3. "Notes on the Coleojytera of the Island of Montreal, Part L"— By F. B. Caulfield. 



4. ''Notes on the Species of Callimorpha occurring on the Island of Montreal." — 

 By F. B. Caulfield. 



5. ''List of Lepidoptera taken by Dr. Robert Bell, in 1880, in the North-West Ter- 

 ritory." — By H. H. Lyman. 



Also a paper by the Rev. T. W. Fyles, entitled, " Advice to Farmers, and How to 

 Deal with the Potato Beetle." 



The following works have been added to the Library during the year : 

 Cassino's Naturalist's Directory for 1880. 

 The American Entomologist for 1880. 

 PsycJie for 1880. 



The Financial Statement for the year is herewith submitted. 



In conclusion, your Council would record with pleasure the satisfactory state of the 

 Society, and would express the hope that with the accession of new members the work 

 of the Society will be prosecuted during the coming year with even more zeal and perse 

 verance than in the past. 



The whole respectfully submitted. ■ 



(Signed) Geo. John Bowles, | 



President. \ 



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The Report having been adopted, and two new members elected, the meeting pro- 1 

 ceeded to the election of officers for the year, with the following result : 



H. H. Lyman, M.A., President; W. Couper, Yice -President ; G. J. Bowles, Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer; Geo. Bowles, Curator; Robert Jack, F. B. Caulfield, and Robert 

 Burland, Council. 



