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should go into the editorial \vaste-paper basket on that account. 

 But my defence is this: though we may interest ourselves in 

 beetles or moths, or even in a single genus only, nature is a whole, 

 of which every part depends, more or less, on every other. In. 

 Entomology, the study of environments is scarcely begun in any- 

 serious fashion, but yet we may well believe that it will lead to a 

 better understanding of the reason of things. than almost any other 

 method of research. Future papers of this series will deal with 

 other counties in which more insects were obtained. 



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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1892. 



WITH this number of the NEWS we have inaugurated a new department; 

 that of Economic Entomology. We were fortunate in securing the ser- 

 vices of Prof. John B. Smith to take charge of it as editor, and the NEWS 

 and its subscribers are to be congratulated. Prof. Smith, as late curator 

 of the Department of Entomology of the United States National Museum 

 and at present State Entomologist of New Jersey, has had a ripe expe- 

 rience in this branch of Entomology, and we confidently predict this, our 

 new departure, will become one of the most interesting features of the 

 journal. Economic Entomology is growing in importance every day, and 

 no one can fail to see its great usefulness, and while much has already 

 been accomplished, we predict a great future for this part of our study. 

 Prof. Smith, in his preliminary remarks, maps out the scope of the de- 

 partment, and what will follow each month cannot fail to be interesting,, 

 instructive and useful to all our readers, but more especially those in any 

 way interested in agriculture or horticulture. 



An Atchinson (Kan.) woman has brought up her chickens on the bugs- 

 collected from the machinery at the electric light station every morning. 



