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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL XK\VS solicit and will t hank I'M \\\ 

 items of news likely ID in It-rest its rentiers from any source. The author's name 

 will be given in each case, for the information of cataloguers ami iiiMioin-aph- 

 ers.] 



To Contributors. All contributions will he considered ami passed upon ai 

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PHILADELPHIA, P.V.. ,1 \\l \ RY, 18D9. 



THE NEWS is ten years old, <>r. rather, is entering its tenth 

 year. Since Tin-: XFAVS entered on its career there have been 

 many changes. Since our first number, of sixteen pages ap- 

 peared, Entomology has wonderfully advanced; more persons 

 are interested; it is largely taught in our schools and colleges; 

 economic Entomology is recogui/ed as a valuable study. A 

 number of our valuable workers have joined the silent major- 

 ity, but let us hope that their places may be tilled by others 

 just as enthusiastic, industrious and able. We are not iiifre- 

 (jiiently confronted with the criticism that the subject has lo-.t 

 its poetry and the delicate touch of Nature has been swept 

 away, and, in its place, there is left a dreary list of scientific 

 names, whose meaning can oul\ be known to a favored fe\\ . \\ith 

 large" scientific libraries at their elbow \\"e try to remedy this 

 in Tin: N i:\vs, but receive no help from the critics; they talk, 

 but do not act . We admit that descript ions of new species an- 

 as dry as the dust under an infested specimen; but we owe 

 more to the systematic worker than to the growler, who pro- 

 claims from the housetops what should lie. but has never 

 put pen to paper. One good friend says we should give less 

 space to " duns " for subscription money and devote t he space 

 to original entomological observations, and charge two dollars 

 for T HI-: Xi;\\s. When we lie awake half the night de\isiug 



means to get the one dollar due us, could we be expected to 

 Stay up all night trying to get two.' Dollars with some en- 

 tomologists seem to be as scarce as the males of I'r >> 



