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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1910. 



The problem of the entomological journal in America is an 

 interesting one. The activity of the economic entomologists 

 and the fact that there is such a demand for trained economic 

 entomologists and the necessity for the study of all insects 

 from an economic standpoint has brought about a new condi- 

 tion of affairs. The old type of collector of the orders Coleop- 

 tera and Lepidoptera is growing restless over the amount of 

 more or less technical literature devoted to the other orders 

 and he would like to see the day when a journal is devoted to 

 his particular hobby alone. Now that entomology has become a 

 profession for so many it is going to be difficult to get persons 

 in the future who will give their services gratuitously to the 

 journals of the future. The American Association of Econo- 

 mic Entomologists has partially solved the problem as it has 

 its official journal, but the work has not gotten beyond the 

 stage of a labor of love. The Entomological Society of Amer- 

 ica could probably do nothing better than to establish a monthly 

 journal of entomology. Such a journal would receive the sup- 

 port of a majority of persons in this country seriously inter- 

 ested in the study. The time will come when we can have a 

 journal devoted to each order, but it is in the dim future. A 

 number of entomological journals have dropped by the way- 

 side from one cause or another, and it will be necessary for 



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