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PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1908. 



"Let us never forget the debt we owe to the pioneers of 

 science. The results of the dearly bought experience of the 

 past form a solid foundation of fact upon which we now stand 

 firmly and confidently, to enter upon new fields of investiga- 

 tion. The status of entomological research to-day is far dif- 

 ferent from what it was even ten years ago. The number of 

 devotees to these attractive studies is easily a hundred-fold 

 greater than then."- -JAMES FLETCHER. 



Entomology is doing great things but we see no busts of 

 entomologists in the Halls of Fame. At the meeting of the 

 A. A. A. S., in New York, it was suggested to the President 

 of one of our great scientific institutions that the Hall of Fame 

 in the American Museum of Natural History, should contain 

 a bust of Thomas Say, whereupon he said he had never heard 

 of such an individual. Dr. Fletcher is perfectly right in what 

 he says, and we all honor those who have blazed the trail, but 

 few honors have come to entomologists. Perhaps we should 

 rise superior to what may be termed empty honors and glory 

 in the knowledge of the value of our study and its great in- 

 terest to mankind, now and for what it will be in the future. 



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