Excerpt from Annual Report of the Entomological Society of the Province of Ontario: For the Year 1880 We may point with justifiable pride to the goodly pile of useful literature published by our Society during this period. Ten Annual Reports have been presented to the Government, which have been printed and widely disseminated as a part of the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario. These Reports of our Society have been full of matter of great importance to the agriculturist and the fruit grower, since most of the insect enemies to field crops and fruits have been systematically treated of in them, and the remedies best fitted to control or destroy the pests explained. The Reports have been much sought after and have no doubt accomplished much good. The Canadian Entomologist, the monthly organ of our Society, has now nearly completed its twelfth volume, the last ten of which have averaged about 250 pages octave, nearly all original matter. In these are recorded the observations of our members on all parts of the continent on insect life in its various forms. The life histories of a large number of species have been given in detail, and a vast amount of other material of much value in promoting the interests and advancing the science of Entomology presented. Our journal is held in high esteem abroad as well as at home, and was for some years the only journal devoted exclusively to Entomology on the continent of America. During the past year the Entomologist has contained many very valuable papers; among those especially worthy of mention are the contributions of Mr. W. H. Edwards on the life histories of the butterflies of North America. We are pleased to learn that he is still pursuing his investigations in this department, and that he will continue to give the readers of the Entomologist the details of his discoveries. Recognizing the important work our Society 1s doing, and with the object of further aiding our endeavours, the Ontario Government have added during the past year to our annual grant the sum of $250, which will enable us to illustrate more freely the articles to be published in our reports and in our journal, and to carry on the ordinary operations of our Society without embarrassment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.