The Rev. Mr. McQuaig gave a graphic description of two fungi giving out very different odours. To the first, on the occasion of the field-day at Montmorency, he was drawn by the delightful perfume it emitted, which resembled that of Sweet Grass, but stronger. Let by the scent, he found the fungus in the recesses of a growth of young spruce and near the bolls of the trees. It was a species of Hydnum. It was remarked that perfumers might turn a knowledge of this to practical account, judging by the powerful scent retained by the dried specimens of the fungus exhibited.

Mr. McQuaig, continuing, stated that while taking a walk with the President in the woods near the Levis cemetery, they encountered the same fine perfume and, after a little search, found large patches of the fungus in the shade of the most entangled growths of spruce.

The other fungus he wished to refer to was a mal-odourous one, Phallus impudicus, known as the Stinkhorn. He gave a minute description of this, both in its egg-like stage and after its full development, when it emitted its overpoweringly offensive odour.

Mrs. Turner said that she had found several specimens of this fungus in her garden at "The Cedars", Island of Orleans. Numbers of Blue

bottle flies were buzzing about them and settling upon them.

Mr. McQuaig explained that doubtless the offensive odour was intended to aid in the dissemination of the species. It attracted carrion insects and these carried away the spores which adhered to their feet.

The officers chosen for the year were:

President, Rev. Dr. Fyles; Vice-President, Miss E. Macdonald; Ser retary-Treasurer, Lt.-Col. Crawford Lindsay; Council, Rev. W. W. M Quaig, Hon. R. Turner, Mrs. Turner, Miss Bickell, Miss Freeman.

Hearty votes of thanks were passed to the authorities of Morrin College for the countenance they have given the Association, to the President and the Secretary-Treasurer for their services, and to Mr. A. F. Winn for his valuable paper.

REPORT OF COUNCIL.

The Branch now includes twenty-six members (twenty-three adults and three juniors).

The Treasurer's report is submitted and will no doubt be found satisfactory.

During the past year eight meetings were held at which interesting lectures were delivered and two enjoyable field-days were held.

Our thanks are due to the authorities of Morrin College for having continued to allow us the use of their rooms for our meetings, and also to the President, Rev. Mr. McQuaig and Miss MacLeod, for their interesting lectures.

CRAWFORD LINDSAY,
Secretary-Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE TORONTO BRANCH.

The eighth annual meeting and ninety-fifth regular meeting of the Toronto Branch, Entomological Society of Ontario, was held in the Provincial Museum, Toronto, on the 19th of May, 1904.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.

I beg to herewith submit the annual report for the season of 1904Our membership this year has been most gratifying in point of numbers, an increase of eight members over last year, and all in good standing, the total number now being fifteen.

During the last year we have kept up our subscriptions to publications as heretofore, and have been enabled to add doors to the fine large cabinet presented to the Society by Mr. McDonough, which now stands in the Ornithological room of the museum.

The permanent collection has been added to considerably, and through the efforts of our Curator a case of representative Butterflies found near Toronto, has been beautifully mounted and labelled and hung for public inspection.

Our specimens of Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera have also been sorted out, and each placed in their respective drawers.

The papers read and lectures delivered have been of a high educational order, shedding new light and knowledge, added to by the exhibition of specimens to illustrate the same.

Dr. Fletcher, of Ottawa, and Mr. Lyman, of Montreal, we are very greatly indebted to, for two of the most interesting and instructive lectures of the season.

Dr. Fletcher's lectures on "The Opening of Spring, and Spring Work" will not soon be forgotten by those fortunate enough to hear it. This meeting was splendidly attended, about fifty being present; the Canadian Institute and public schools being well represented.

Our financial statement this year has not been surpassed, no doubt owing to the increase in membership.

Your Secretary-Treasurer in closing, wishes to thank the members of the Toronto Branch for the help and courtesy extended to him, making his duties a pleasure to perform for the Society.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

J. MAUGHAN, JR.,
Secretary-Treasurer.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Jr. Wm. Brodie; Vice-President, Paul Hahn; Secretary-Treasurer, John Maughan. Jr,; Librarian and Curator, J. B. Williams; Council, W. J. Fraser, Henry S. Saunders, J. H. Webb.

LECTURES AND PAPERS-SEASON 1903-4.

1st. J. B. Williams: "Butterflies in 1903 and Classification of same." 2nd. Exhibition of Specimens.

3rd. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa: "Some Work done in the Division of Entomology at Ottawa during 1903" (Published in Toronto World).

4th. Mr. Lyman, Montreal: "Moths of the Genus Gortyna and Hydroecia."

5th. E. M. Walker, M.B.: "Two collecting trips in Algonquin Park." 6th. Dr. Fletcher, Ottawa: "Opening of Spring and spring Work." 7th. Annual Meeting; Dr. E. M. Walker and Mr. Paul Hahn: "Collecting in Algonquin Park". Illustrated by electric lantern.

REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION FOR 1904.

The Botanical Section of the Entomological Society of Ontario met for organization on the 7th of May, 1904, when the following officers were elected for the coming year: Mr. S. B. McCready, Chairman; Prof. Bowman, Vice-Chairman; Master H. C. Rennie, Secretary.

Nine fortnightly meetings were held during the season, at nearly all of which there was a satisfactory attendance, the average number present being about seven. Two very successful field-days were held, the first at 'Dorchester and the second at Komoka.

An interesting paper was read by Mr. Dearness on June 18th, on "Plant Societies", and many interesting talks on Botanical subjects were given during the year. A great variety of plants were brought to the meetings for examination and identification. The last evening of the season devoted to fungi, of which an account was given by Profs. Bowman and Dearness. S. B. MCCREADY,

REPORT OF THE MICROSCOPICAL SECTION.

was

Chairman..

The Microscopical Section of the Entomological Society of Ontario has much pleasure in presenting its fourteenth annual report. The meeting for reorganzation after the summer recess was held on the 3rd of October, 1903, and the following officers were elected: Prof. J. H. Bowman, Chairman; Mr. R. W. Rennie, Vice-Chairman; Mr. C. E. Parsons, Secretary.

Prof. J. Dearness and the officers were appointed the Executive Committee for the year,

Thirteen meetings were held during the winter season, with an average attendance of nine members, besides a number of visitors. Papers were read or addresses given on the following subjects:

Aphids, Ants and Honey-dew: Rev. Dr. Bethune; Ferns, their Spores and Modes of Growth: Mr. S. B. McCready; The Inhabitants of an old Basswood Limb: Prof. Dearness; Barnacles Found on some Pine Logs: Prof. Bowman; Platino-Cyanide Crystals of Barium: Prof. Bowman; Collembola: Mr. F. A. Stuart; Sea-weeds from Santa Monica Bay, California: Mr. M. Westland; Algæ: Prof. Dearness.

These papers were illustrated by specimens and slides for the microscope. At nearly all the meetings a number of objects of interest and beauty were also exhibited and discussed.

J. H. BOWMAN,

Chairman.

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR.

The following is the report for the year ending August 31st, 1904: The number of bound volumes added to the library during the year was twenty-eight, making the number on the register 1,832. Among the new acquisitions there have been received volumes VIII and IX of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, being the two parts devoted to insects; Dr. Holland's Moth-Book, presented by the late librarian, Mr. J. Alston Moffat, to the Society as "an acknowledgment of its generosity in his declining years"; Sir George Hampson's Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the British Museum, being volume IV of his "Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ”; and Rothschild and Jordan's "Revision of the Sphingida".

A large number of scientific magazines, bulletins of experimental stations, and other publications, have also been received. Many of these will be bound into volumes and the rest catalogued and arranged in such a way as to be readily accessible.

The number of volumes issued to members during the year was thirtythree.

The collections of Canadian insects have been increased during the year by the generous gift of 103 specimens (52 species) of Coleoptera and two specimens each of six species of Lepidoptera taken by Mr. Norman Criddle. at Aweme, Manitoba. The local members have contributed specimens in various orders taken in the immediate neighborhood of London.

The Curator would very much like to receive specimens of almost all our Canadian insects to fill blanks in the cabinets and to replace old and imperfect examples. Any member who has specimens to spare would confer a favour by sending first a list of those which he is willing to present to the Society in order to avoid duplication. In many of the orders our collections are very meagre.

The removal of the Society's library and cabinets to the room in the Public Library building was satisfactorily accomplished last month, and no damage was done to either books or specimens. The increased space now available will enable the Society to find room for large additions to both the collections and the library.

Respectfully submitted.

CHARLES J. S. BETHUNE,

Librarian and Curator.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER.

Receipts and expenditures of the Entomological Society of Ontario for the year ending August 31st, 1904:

We, the auditors of the Entomological Society of Ontario, hereby certify that we have audited the books and vouchers of the Treasurer and find them all well kept and correct, the above being a true statement of accounts up to August 31st, 1904.

London, Ont., Oct. 25, 1904.

S. B. MCCREADY,
W. H. HAMILTON,
Auditors.

J. A. BALKWILL,

Treasurer.

REPORT TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA.

The following is the report to the Royal Society of Canada from the Entomological Society of Ontario, through the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, D.C.L., Delegate.

The Entomological Society of Ontario has now continued in active operation for two score years, and held its fortieth annual meeting in Ottawa on the 3rd and 4th of September last. Of the little band of enthusiasts who met in Toronto in April, 1863, for the purpose of organizing the Society, but three now survive, Dr. Wm. Saunders Rev. Dr. Bethune and Mr. E. Baynes Reed. It is gratifying to note that they have continued to take an active interest in the welfare of the Society from that time to the present.

"The Canadian Entomologist," the monthly magazine of the Society, is now in its thirty-sixth year of publication. The volume for 1903 contains 352 pages and is illustrated with six full-page plates and fifteen figures in the text, all from original drawings. The contributors number sixtyone and represent Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Luxemburg and Cuba. The principal articles may be grouped as follows: Descriptions of new genera, species and varieties in Lepidoptera by Prof. J. B. Smith, Dr. H. G. Dyar and Mr. G. M. Dodge; in Hymenoptera by Dr. W. H. Ashmead, Profs. T. D. A. Cockerell and H. T. Fernald, Messrs. J. C. Bradley, A. W. Morrill, J. C. Crawford, R. A. Cooley, C. Robertson, Rev. T. W. Fyles and Dr. S. Graenicher; in Diptera by Messrs. D. W. Coquillett, F. V. Theobald, and J. S. Hine; in Coleoptera by Prof. H. F. Wickham and Mr. C. Schaeffer; in Hemiptera-Homoptera by Prof. Cockerell, Messrs. A. W. Morrill, R. A. Cooley, A. L. Quaintance, G. B. King, E. B. Ball and W. T. Clarke; in Hemiptera-Heteroptera by Mr. C. Stevenson; and in Orpthoptera by Messrs. E. M. Walker and E. S. G. Titus. Thirty-nine new genera are described, 106 new species and eight new varieties and sub-species.

Life-histories more or less complete, are given of the following insects: Crocigrapha Normani and several Canadian species of Apantesis by Mr. Arthur Gibson; the strawberry Aleyrodes (A. Packardi) by Mr. A. W. Morrill; Hydrocia appassionata found boring in Sarracenia by Mr. H. Bird; the Apple Bud-borer (Steganoptycha pyricolana) by Prof. E. D. Sanderson; Mamestra laudabilis by Dr. H. G. Dyar; and several species of Mosquitoes by Mr. F. V. Theobald.

Papers on Classification. Nomenclature and systematic Entomology: the Wasps of the super-family Vespoidea by Dr. Ashmead; Arctic Hymenoptera by Mr. W. H. Harington; Nomadina and Epeolinæ by Mr. C. Robertson; Prof. Aldrich and Mr. Coquillett on Culex; Mr. J. C. Bradley on the genus Platylabus; Mr. E. M. Walker on the genus Podisma in Eastern North America; Dr. Dyar and Mr. A. Bacot on Aglia tau; Mrs. Fernald on Coccida; Dr. Fletcher and Prof. Grote on Lepidoptera; Prof. Cockerell and Mr. Titus on Hymenoptera.

Collecting notes, and papers on the geographical distribution of species, are given by Prof. A. D. Hopkins on Forest Insect Explorations; Mr. Coquillett on the Phorid genus Enigmatias in Denmark and Arizona; Mr. G. B. King on Records of Coccidæ; Dr. Fyles on Quebec Diptera; Mr. J. D. Evans on the Coleoptera of North-Western Canada; Mr. W. T. Clarke Californian Aphididae; Butterfly notes from Toronto by Mr. J. B. Wil