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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1902. 



Editor ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



I have been much interested in your numerous articles in 

 regard to the importance and scientific value of exact locality 

 and date labels on specimens, and heartily endorse your efforts 

 to persuade collectors to be more careful in this direction ; but 

 are yoU, not aware that there is more than carelessness at the 

 bottom of this matter in some, if not a great many, cases ? I 

 have specimens that I had sent out with printed New Brighton, 

 Pa., labels on them, come back to me later with West Pa., 

 and others with simply Pa. written on them. 



As it requires more carefulness to exchange the labels than 

 it does to let them alone, I fear you must look for some other 

 cause than carelessness to account for some, at least, of these 

 indefinite labels. 



Can it be possible that we have some among us who are so 

 selfish, so illiberal, so small that they fear their correspondent 

 will ascertain by whom the specimen was taken, and go direct 

 to headquarters for such species in future, cutting out his 

 small ness as a stand behveen, collecting toll from both parties? 

 I sincerely hope not, yet the mutilated labels on exchange 

 specimens would indicate that such there be. 



Liberality in dealing in our beautiful and most fascinating 

 study, as well as all other pursuits in life, is the "winning 

 card." Let us hope it will in the near future be universally 

 followed. HARRY D. MERRICK. 



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