ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1921. 



Another New Year's Resolution. 



A year ago, on the editorial page of the NEWS for January. 

 1920. we puhlished eleven New Year's Resolutions for the 

 Entomologist. \Ye shall not repeat them here, although they 

 are quite as well worthy of remembrance and of practice in 

 1921 as in 1920, and we respectfully refer them to the atten- 

 tion of collectors and writers. All of us, including the editor, 

 forget, or neglect to do, things we ought to do. As the result 

 of our neglect the other fellow often must devote some pre- 

 cious time to making good our omissions, deficiencies and 

 errors. Many a half hour, with its opportunity for original 

 or constructive work, is lost because some correspondent need- 

 lessly inflicts upon a busy man data which are illegible, un- 

 certain, or incomplete. There is a paper, or a drawing for 

 an illustration, which is unfinished in some detail and must be 

 returned to the author for correction. There are questions 

 raised which the inquirer could have answered for himself by 

 a little more personal effort and investigation. As we grmv 

 older, we appreciate more fully the fleetingness of time, the 

 shortening of our working life. Let us add to the Xew 

 YeaiVs resolutions of 1920 a twelfth for 1921, whose spirit is 

 so general as to include the reason for all those eleven: 



Don't bother the other fellow with the sort of things you 

 don't like to be bothered about yourself. 



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