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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1910. 



THE GROWING APPRECIATION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



The London Times for Wednesday, August 10, 1910, de- 

 votes rather more than two columns, exactly forty-six inches, 

 to a sober and sensible account of the first International Con- 

 gress of Entomology, held at Brussels August 1-6. We quote 

 a few sentences : "Entomology is at last recognized officially 

 as an important science. The study of insects so long looked 

 upon with disdain as a pastime for children and old men has 

 at last vindicated its claim as a valuable branch of human men- 

 tal activity. That is to say, from being a purely intellectual 

 exercise, entomology has developed a most important practical 

 aspect that will, in the near future, have a profound and far- 

 reaching effect upon the lives and fortunes of millions. The 

 discovery of the astonishing phenomenon that one species of 

 mosquito, and one only, is the vehicle for the transmission of 

 yellow fever, another of malaria, while a single kind of biting 

 fly communicates sleeping sickness to the teeming millions of 

 the African Continent, has a direct and vital influence upon 

 tropical medicine ; and the Americans have long since realized 

 that an accurate knowledge of the habits of one kind of beetle 

 may save agriculturists from damage that may result in the 

 loss of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Thus entomology 

 has won the serious attention of practical men who, acting to- 

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