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THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA 
On September 4, 1861, Mr. Cresson wrote: “We clo our own 
printing, as you already know; I am the compositor and also 
assist in the press-work, and although I have had little or no 
experience in setting type (I have set the type for all the pages of 
the Proceedings thus far), yet be assured that I will do my best to 
have your paper got up in as neat and scientific a style as possible, 
although we have but three kinds of type, Long Primer , Minion , 
and Minion Clarendon. — The next number will appear at the 
regular time, unless something unforeseen should happen.” 
September 26, 1861: “ Please excuse me for troubling you with 
a proof of one single page onlg ; the reason I send this single page is 
this. On Monday evening last Dr. Wilson, with his usual liberal¬ 
ity, presented the Publication Committee with enough money to pur¬ 
chase a press which will print four pages at once. We now have 
the press at the room, ready for action, and now as we have sent 
you the proof of the first three pages (which by the way Le Conte 
has returned corrected) we send the enclosed to make up the fourth, 
so that we may go on and print them off, as soon as you return this 
one corrected. By the time this is corrected and returned, four 
more pages will be on their way to you for correction, and so on 
until the paper is finished. So please return the enclosed as soon 
as you possibly can. The 25 copies extra will, with much pleasure, 
be forwarded to you as soon as the paper is finished. — If you 
should have any paper hereafter that may require lithographic 
plates (such as larvae, etc.), we will bear the expenses of getting 
them up and printed off, that is if the drawings are sent to us. We 
have a young artist, a member, who has undertaken to do all the 
lithographing for us free of cost; all we have to pay for is the 
press-work and paper. — Now as we have a large press, we are ready 
for any amount of material! ” 
The large press enabled the Publication Committee to print four 
pages at once; and yet, the small hand-press, with the type set by 
Mr. Cresson, from which the single pages of the first issues of the 
Proceedings were struck off, produced work which can stand com¬ 
parison with the best work of an average typography. 
November 12, 1861: “Please find herewith 25 extra-copies of 
your valuable paper. I hope that you will excuse any errors that 
