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PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1902. 



Would it be practicable to get the concerted action of the 

 numerous societies of the country to publish a periodical (say 

 monthly) to be supported by all entomologists. The thought 

 was suggested to me by reading this morning in the last issue 

 of the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Ent. Soc. (1884-5) the follow- 

 ing: 'The unanimous expression of the desirability of a union 

 of Entomological journals that might secure the support of all 

 interested in Entomology led to the merging of the Bulletin 

 and Papilio under the name of Entomologica Americana, etc." 

 I believe it is now in contemplation to renew the publication of 

 the Bulletin. In the same periodical, in connection with the 

 death of Dr. Le Conte, was a proposition to try to secure a full set 

 of his writings to be published, but the fact that they were so 

 widely scattered, many of them out of print, made it an im- 

 possible undertaking. The question at once arose in my mind, 

 Will this ahvays be so? If not, what is being done to remedy 

 the evil ? As I understand the present situation, a number of 

 our societies publish (intermittently) their proceedings. Why 

 should not all the societies of the country unite to support one 

 monthly periodical that should publish the proceedings of CYCTX 

 society in the U. S. (and Canada as well) and for this receive 

 their united moral and financial support? In such a publica- 

 tion should be published every description of a new species of 



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