ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1917. 



The News for 1917. 



The rising cost of living and of everything else has begun 

 to affect the NEWS but we shall not let it affect our subscribers 

 if it be possible to avoid doing so. We shall not raise our sub- 

 scription price or reduce the number of pages as long as our 

 many present friends stand by us. We think we have been giv- 

 ing as much (or more) in return for the annual sum of two dol- 

 lars as any other entomological journal in the world and we 

 don't propose to fall behind our past record in this respect. 

 On the other hand, to run into bankruptcy would defeat the 

 very objects for which the NEWS exists and it therefore seems 

 advisable to adopt the following precautionary measure. We 

 shall limit the number of plates in each issue to one or two, 

 except where authors supply the blocks for the plates accom- 

 panying their articles or pay for making blocks. This may 

 mean that illustrated papers may be somewhat retarded in their 

 publication, but the ways to secure earlier appearance are ob- 

 vious. 



We take this opportunity of reminding our contributors of 

 the desirability of carefully considering the limitations under 

 which reproduction of drawings and of photographs can be 

 made. When these are to be reduced in size in order to come 

 within the dimensions of an average NEWS plate (6 l / 2 by 4 

 inches), it must be remembered that the details of drawing or 

 of photograph must be so far apart that, when brought nearer 

 together by the necessary amount of reduction of the whole 

 plate, they will still be far enough apart to be distinct. This 

 also involves the distances of the various figures on the same 

 plate from each other. Also, since all the figures on a given 

 plate are reduced at once and made into a single block, all the 

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