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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY, 1913. 



Entomology is a subject of vast and ever-increasing im- 

 portance as the discoveries, made every year, of the influence 

 of insects on human life, health, food, shelter and other pos- 

 sessions abundantly prove. Yet it is still unappreciated in 

 many quarters, where, to apply Huxley's quotation from 

 Dante, it is 



put on cross so much, 



Even by those who ought to give her praise, 

 Giving her wrongly ill repute and blame. 



Those who still regard the study of insects as unworthy of 

 human endeavor, or as indicative of a low degree of intelli- 

 gence, we can triumphantly refer to the career of Sir John 

 Lubbock, Lord Avebury, briefly sketched on another page of 

 this issue. That many-sided man, "banker, humanitarian, 

 man of letters, legislator, pre-eminent natural historian, did 

 many things well," and could most fitly have borne the motto 

 which Thomas Say adopted from Harris : "As there is no 

 part of nature too mean for the Divine Presence, so there is 

 no kind of subject having its foundation in nature that is be- 

 low the dignity of a philosophical inquiry." If a Lubbock 

 could devote a large part of his "patience and spirits of wine" 

 to the investigation of a minute spring-tail, or concern him- 

 self with the behavior of an ant, no man with but a fraction 

 of his genius or of his achievements can be justified in regard- 

 ing an entomologist with contempt. 



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