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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Published monthly (except luly and August), in charge of the joint 

 publication committees of the Entomological Section of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and the American Entomological 

 Society. It will contain not less than 300 pages per annum. It will main- 

 tain no free list whatever, but will leave no measure untried to make it a 

 necessity to every student of insect life, so that its very moderate annual 

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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1897. 



IN the NEWS for October, 1893, page 266, and again in the 

 number for February, 1894, page 42, we have had something to 

 say on the subject of postage on specimens of natural history to 

 foreign countries. We have there detailed the efforts made by 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to obtain lower 

 rates, explaining that the present regulations of the Universal 

 Postal Union permit such specimens to be mailed only at letter 

 rates, although it is true that many countries have Parcel Posts, 

 the charges for which are lower than those for letters. The aim 

 of the Academy has been to secure the adoption by the Postal 

 Union of a proposition offered by the U. S. Post Office Depart- 

 ment that specimens of natural history be admitted to the inter- 

 national mails at the rates for, and under the conditions applicable 

 to, samples of merchandise. This proposition was, however, re- 

 jected at the last International Postal Congress of Vienna. 



At the International Congress of Zoology, held at Leyclen, 

 Holland, in September, 1895, Dr. Chas. Wardell Stiles, official 

 delegate of the U. S. Government, offered resolutions, which 

 were subsequently adopted, that the Swiss Government be re- 

 quested, through its delegate to the Congress of Zonlogv, to 

 propose to the next International Postal Congress an amendment 

 to the regulations thereof whereby specimens of Natural History 

 shall be carried in the mails of the Universal Postal Union at the 



