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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1909. 



At its last meeting- the Entomological Society of America 

 passed a resolution to the effect that it saw no wisdom in a 

 duty on insects. The reasons for this were set forth in a care- 

 fully prepared and to our mind convincing document which 

 was signed by the proper officers of the society and sent to 

 the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The merits of a case do not appear to cut much figure in 

 Congress and the expected happened. 



The act now in force which appears to cover insects is as 

 follows : "Specimens of natural history, botany, and miner- 

 alogy, when imported for scientific public collections, and not 

 for sale," are on the free list. The act is ambiguous in some 

 respects as stuffed birds ; eggs of birds, fish and insects ; fossils ; 

 minerals and shells are free. Entomologists as yet can have no 

 "political pull" and we hope they never will have. Tariff bills 

 are apparently not framed on the merits of any particular case. 



A. W. MORRILL has resigned his position with the Bureau of En- 

 tomology as investigator in charge of Citrus White Fly Investigators 

 and has accepted the position of Entomologist of the Arizona Horti- 

 cultural Commission and of the Arizona Experiment Station. 



As WILL be noticed among the advertisements in this number a 

 new price list of publications for sale, has been issued by the Ameri- 

 can Entomological Society ; and also a "Classification of the Families 

 of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico," giving tables or 

 keys by which the families may be distinguished, a very useful pamph- 

 let to those interested in that order of insects. 



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