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graphic matter cannot possibly be excluded from the bulletins, 

 and I think a reconsideration of this resolution should take 

 place at the next opportunity. 



In conclusion I would beg leave to devote a few words to a 

 certain class of entomological articles, which is also character 

 istic of our country, viz : that which appears in the columns of 

 our daily or weekly press and in allied journals. That there 

 is no better means for widely disseminating information than 

 through the press there can be no question, and a well- 

 written article on some insect, occupying say one-half or one 

 whole column of a newspaper, is infinitely more read and does 

 infinitely more good than an elaborate treatise on the same in 

 sect occupying hundred or more pages and published in the 

 bulky volumes of official reports. In fact, so evident is here 

 the importance and usefulness of the press that the official en 

 tomologists should make it their duty to use its columns as 

 often as possible, and I am glad to see that most of our ento 

 mologists consider the subject in this light. But it assumes a 

 different aspect from the fact that these newspaper articles are 

 included in the bibliographies of economic entomology, which 

 nowadays have become a conspicuous element in our literature, 

 and without which almost any article is considered incomplete. 

 With this practice economic entomology places itself in direct 

 contrast and conflict with the rules now universally adopted by 

 zoological bibliography. While it is, of course, not possible to 

 discriminate sharply between what is to be considered a sci 

 entific journal and a newspaper, and while it must largely be 

 left to common sense to draw this dividing line, science can 

 not possibly recognize as fit places for scientific publications 

 such papers as the " The Evening Star," " Daily News," etc. 

 Scientific zoology, including entomology, cannot possibly re 

 cede from its position without opening the door to all sorts of 

 annoyances and abuses; and if the economic entomologists per 

 sist in this practice, practical entomology will be in danger of 

 drawing apart from scientific entomology, and so a breach 

 be opened between the two branches of the science which 

 would rapidly widen until it be no longer possible to bridge it. 

 This would be a calamity, and would tend to lower economic 



