Mar., 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 133 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



MR. GEORGE WILLIS KTRKALDY died suddenly in San Francisco, 

 February the second in his thirty-sixth year. 



THE Kosmos Natural Science Establishment of Herkimer, New 

 York, has issued an attractive little catalogue of its entomological 

 wares. Mr. Richard Lohrmann is the manager. 



CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC AMENITIES & ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH. 

 The writer welcomed the recent increase in the subscription price of 

 the News because, having always believed that he got more than the 

 worth of his money, he saw no reason to suppose that such a condi- 

 tion not would also prevail in the future. It may be true, as a recent 

 contributor intimated, that the News is not always scientific. It is cer- 

 tainly nearly always interesting. No reader will object to the occupy- 

 ing of space (for which in the last analysis, he pays), by notes or ar- 

 ticles in which, perhaps, he has but a remote interest, or none at all, 

 because he knows that some among the readers of the magazine are 

 interested and helped by those same articles. 



In the case of two articles, however, that have recently appeared 

 under the names of Dr. J. B. Smith and Dr. H. G. Dyar,* the writer 

 feels that he expresses the feeling of many, perhaps a majority of the 

 readers of the News in saying that they are neither edifying nor help- 

 ful and while he would not presume to attempt to instruct either of 

 the gentlemen in the ordinary amenities of scientific intercourse, he 

 feels that he has a right to protest against the occupying of space in 

 the News by such matter if only on the ground that it takes up room 

 that might be occupied by something more worth while, and that he 

 is therefore defrauded to a certain degree of the equivalent for his 

 subscription. 



Human interest is purely relative and while it may be intensely in- 

 teresting to Drs. Smith and Dyar to contest as to who saw a mud 

 puddle first, it is assuming a good deal to believe that the rest of the 

 scientific world is equally interested. Seriously, it is the chance afforded 

 by such things as this that give the newspaper paragrapher his oppor- 

 tunity and contribute to the poor opinion which the ordinary Philistine 

 has of the "bug hunter." 



If Dr. Dyar holds Dr. Smith in such low esteem that he cannot feel 

 "at present particularly friendly" toward him, it isn't necessary to oc- 

 cupy valuable space in a scientific journal telling the rest of us about 



* ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, December, 1909, page 425, and January, 10.10, 

 page 17. 



