THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA 
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may be found, and also if the general appearance may not be so uni¬ 
form as books generally are, but please remember that we are not 
printers by trade, but only greenhorns, and have to learn every¬ 
thing by experience. We hope to improve as we progress. We 
never dampen our printing paper, because it removes the glossy 
whiteness. We use the best ink and paper, we only want experi¬ 
ence to make a tip-top job of it. By doing the printing ourselves 
we save a great deal. For instance, our first number cost us only 
about $11; the second, $8.50; and the third, $10. — Total, only 
$29.50, say $30, for a pamphlet of 72 pages and 250 copies! We 
have already saved nearly $80 by working the affair ourselves. — 
We have plenty of material for No. 4 (November and December, 
1861), but we have none for No. 5 (January and February, 1862). 
Can you give us something for this number?—I hope that we will 
receive the earnest encouragement and co-operation of all entomo¬ 
logical authors, for our Journal can hardly fail to be a valuable 
medium through which to diffuse entomological science.” 
I have before me seventy-two letters of this kind, in the neatest 
handwriting, which I received from Mr. Cresson between 1861 
and 1869; twenty-one of them were written during the year 1862 
alone. I was delighted to have my papers published by the Soci¬ 
ety, for, so far as my knowledge of typography goes, I could not 
have found elsewhere in the United States a special periodical with 
such a 44 tip-top ” printing as theirs (besides my natural desire to 
encourage such exemplary scientific zeal). For the first volume (be¬ 
tween October, 1861, and February, 1863) I furnished five papers, 
occupying nearly one hundred pages of the volume. Among them 
are my papers on the larvae of Mycetophilidae and on those of some 
rare Coleoptera, both accompanied with plates. My series of 
papers on Cynipidae and several other papers appeared in the same 
Proceedings. 
I am glad to have found this opportunity for inserting in my 
44 Record ” an expression of my gratitude and appreciation to Mr. 
Cresson and his associates at that time! 
