1897.] 



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PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1897. 



NEWSPAPER ENTOMOLOGY. 



"I have referred to the Station Bulletin as a conveyance for 

 placing the results of studies and investigations before the public, 

 but there is still another and, what appears to me to be a still 

 better one, viz., the daily and weekly press. Station publica- 

 tions, like all public documents, appear in a most deliberate man- 

 ner, months often elapsing between the time the manuscript is 

 written and the time the printed bulletin appears, and not unfre- 

 quently the conditions which called it into being or the emer- 

 gency which it was expected to meet has come and gone while 

 the manuscript was yet in the hands of the State printer awaiting 

 a slack time in his office when it could be taken up and published. 

 The daily press can scatter information broadcast over the land 

 within the space of twenty-four hours, and, within a week, place 

 it in the hands of every person who takes even the most isolated 

 weekly paper. But the trouble here is that the condition of the 

 press is such that few people who deal with facts or desire abso- 

 lutely reliable statements go to the public press to find them. 

 No one unhesitatingly expects either truthfulness or exactm-s 

 from this source. In fact, the greater the exaggeration the more 

 sensational and flippant an article can be made the more likely 

 it is to appear in the columns of our daily papers and the more 

 widely will it be copied. Even if the author take the precaution 

 to prepare the manuscript in the most careful manner it will 

 likely present itself at his breakfast table the next morning in his 



