Jan., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 



It has been suggested to the NEWS that there should be a 

 journal devoted to personal recriminations. Such a publication 

 could be issued once or twice a year and the expense of the 

 publication should be defrayed by the authors of the articles 

 appearing in it. There should be no editing of any article 

 except in so far as necessary to allow the publication to go 

 through the United States mails. Personalities should not 

 appear in self-respecting journals, as they do not advance 

 science in any way, and the persons indulging in them only 

 hold themselves up to ridicule and scorn. It is very unpleasant 

 to reply to such articles and individuals should rise superior 

 to the imputation that the failure to reply means acknowledg- 

 ment of the position taken by the other party. 



Moreover, the scientific world is not interested in disputes, 

 as science is only advanced by the general acceptance of facts. 

 On the other hand differences of opinion expressed in appro- 

 priate language should never cause offense. In a formative 

 study different views are very likely to be held and should cause 



no friction. 



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Entomological Literature. 



FURTHER RESEARCHES ON NORTH AMERCAN ACRIDIIDAE. By Albert 

 Pitts Morse. Carnegie Institution Publication, No. 68, 1907. 54 

 pp., i map, 9 pis. and frontispiece. 



This extremely interesting publication is a report on the data ob- 

 tained during a field trip made in the summer of 1905 under the auspices 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. On a previous trip, the 

 results of which have been reviewed in these pages,* the author car- 

 ried his field investigations through a large portion of the southeastern 

 United States, and on the expedition of 1905 it was planned to make 

 a reconnaissance of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and 

 Arkansas. However, the presence of yellow fever in Louisiana and 

 the accompanying quarantines necessitated a re-arrangement of the 

 work, and in consequence Indian Territory, Oklahoma and northern 

 and "Pan-handle" Texas were examined instead of Louisiana. In all 

 fifty-two localities were visited, of which Cheaha Mountain, Alabama, 

 Magazine Mountain and Rich Mountain, Arkansas and Mount Sheri- 

 dan, Oklahoma, may be particularly mentioned. The boreal element 

 noted on several of these mountains, while meagre, is still sufficient 

 to make the regions of considerable interest. 



* ENTOM. NEWS, xvi, pp. 22-23. 



