The medal, which may be awarded each year by The Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada for the most outstanding contribution by professional or technical workers or groups of workers belonging to the Dominion or Provincial Civil Services in Canada, in science, economics, administration, and associated fields of endeavour, was presented on November 28th to H. L. Seamans and those associated with him at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Lethbridge, Alberta, in recognition of the work upon the control of the pale western cutworm, Agrotis orthogonia Morr.