The Third Imperial Entomological Conference

Abstract

THE Third Imperial Entomological Conference was held in London, under the auspices of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, on June 15–27. Through the courtesy of the officers and council of the Entomological Society of London the meetings of the Conference were held at the headquarters of the Society at 41 Queen's Gate. About forty delegates, representing twenty-four different States of the British Empire, attended in an official capacity. Lord Buxton, the chairman of the managing committee of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, was unfortunately unable to be present owing to illness, and was represented at the opening meeting by Sir Sidney Harmer. The morning of the first day of the Conference was devoted to the reception of delegates and the appointment of sub-committees to deal with business matters. At this meeting it was announced that the Managing Committee had decided to alter the name of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology to the Imperial Institute of Entomology, in view of the growth and expansion of its work since it was first founded. In the afternoon the delegates were shown a very remarkable film brought from Canada by Mr. A. Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, representing the mass production of the parasites of the European corn borer, as carried on in the laboratory of the Dominion Entomological Department at Chatham, Ontario. In this film the various phases of the mass production work and the behaviour of the principal parasites of the pest studied were shown with extraordinary clearness and accuracy. The film was exhibited at the Imperial Institute through the courtesy of the Director, Lieut.—Gen. Sir W. T. Furse, and was again shown by request on Friday, June 20. The exhibition of the film was followed by a reception of the delega ITS at the Natural History Museum.