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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1904. 



We are pleased to see the increased interest in entomolog}' 

 and the rapid progress being made in almost every way. Our 

 subscription list has grown to such an extent this year as to 

 make Vol. XV practically out of print. More people are tak- 

 ing up the study than ever before, and students and collectors 

 are turning their attention to orders other than Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera. The interesting and beautiful little Micro- 

 L/epidoptera are receiving the attention they deserve, and 

 monographs and revisions of some of the families are promised 

 in the near future. The insects of economic importance are 

 being studied in a more scientific way and everywhere the 

 study is looked upon with more respect. The subject of 

 insects as carriers of disease is one of the greatest subjects that 

 confronts the medical man and the zoologist at the present 

 time, and the good already accomplished is amazing and the 

 future full of the brightest promise. 



If some one would write a sketch of the progress of ento- 

 mology since about 1860 it would undoubtedly be of great 



interest. 



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