ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1916. 



A New Department in the News. 



We all wish to improve our methods of doing things, so 

 that we may obtain results previously out of our reach, or that 

 we may save time for more important things. We ourselves 

 do not always contrive such improvements, and although some- 

 one else often devises the very thing we need, we remain un- 

 aware of his success. It has been suggested that mutual help 

 may come by the institution of a department of "Questions 

 and Answers" in the NEWS, whereby we shall aid each other 

 in our problems. We shall therefore make a beginning with 

 a question which has been submitted to us and we invite those 

 interested to send in replies which, if brief, we shall be glad 

 to print in the earliest possible issue of the NEWS. Other 

 questions are also welcomed, although the Editors must, of 

 course, reserve the right not to publish questions or answers 

 which seem to them objectionable or inappropriate. Those 

 sending in either questions or answers will please indicate 

 whether they wish their names, or merely one or more initials, 

 to appear in connection with their contributions, but all such 

 must be accompanied by the full name and address of the 

 writer for the information of the Editors. 



I wish to ask the opinion of entomologists as to the practical use to 

 them of a transparent mount which I have devised that will emibk- 

 both sides of an insect's wings to be examined, that can be handled 

 with perfect freedom without breakage and that can be filed like a card 

 index in standard cabinets, giving a reference collection right at the 

 desk and doing away with the danger of breakage incident to using 

 specimens from the main collection. C. 



New State Officials. 



Professor J. G. Sanders has recently resigned as State Entomologist 

 of Wisconsin to become Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania. Mis 

 work at Harrisburg began September 16, 1916. 



Dr. S. B. Fracker has been appointed Acting State Entomologist of 

 Wisconsin by the Commissioner of Agriculture, and will have charge 

 of the work of the State Entomologist's office until a successor to 

 Professor Sanders is appointed. 



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