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development. The NEWS, if supported only by the born scien- 

 tists, and the professionals, would die like a gnat in the cyanide 

 jar. The majority of our subscribers are collectors, amateurs 

 and lovers of Nature, and we believe that they believe that 

 science is knowledge, and that knowledge is not necessarily dry 

 science. When all our subscribers, through time and reading 

 the NEWS, have become sufficiently scientific to dote on de- 

 scriptions of new species and lists of genera in the Coccidae 

 and Culicidae, we will gladly supply such things alone. We 

 believe that the great success of the NEWS could beTnaterially 

 increased by articles that present knowledge, scientific knowl- 

 edge, but in a more attractive form. We would still cater to 

 our born scientist, but we would not discourage, everybody 

 else, especially the embryo scientist who is now only a collector 



and a lover of Nature. 



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Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



MR. A. F. BURGESS, expert in charge of breeding experiments in re- 

 gard to the prevention of spread of the Gypsy Moth, 6 Beacon street, 

 Boston, Mass., would like data in regard to Calosnina and Caraluis, and 

 living specimens of these beetles will be much appreciated if sent to 

 him. 



THE EDITOR "Xews." 



Dear Sir : Is anything being done by representative Entomologists 

 in the East with regard to customs duty on insects? The trouble here 

 is not so much the actual fact that I have to pay a few dollars to the 

 United States Treasury (or wherever they go), as the fact that there 

 is always great delay and difference of opinion in assessing the value 

 of specimens. 



A friend, say in South America, sends me as a present a number of 

 pinned Hemiptera, who is to judge what their value is? How can the 

 value be appraised ? 



Tt is such a petty matter, anyhow, that the total abolishment could 

 not make any difference to the Treasury. As it is, it depends entirely 

 where one is, how much one pays and how much trouble one has. 



In several instances I have had to decline offers made by European 

 museums and other extra- American people to examine material (which 

 I much wanted to do), because of the expense and trouble involved. 



G. W. KIKKALDY, Honolulu, T. H. 



