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PHILADELPHIA, PA., DECEMBER, 1907. 



This number completes the eighteenth volume of the NEWS 

 with 456 pages and 17 plates. In other words it has been in 

 existence for eighteen years. It had a few trials in its early 

 days but warm friends came to the rescue. Its growth has 

 been steady and normal, and has gone along with the increased 

 interest in the study of insects. We see no reason why the 

 journal should not continue to be enlarged and improved, as 

 our subscription list is larger this year than ever before. We 

 feel that we are not receiving enough papers of a general and 

 popular interest. We do not wish to discourage technical 

 papers, but desire the other kind too. We fully realize that 

 there is more in entomology than the description of new spe- 

 cies, and w 7 e would welcome more papers on habits, collecting 

 experiences, life histories, or the part of the study that inakrs 

 interesting reading yet does not lack scientific value. Nature 

 stories with the fake part left out would probably explain the 

 idea. The nature- fake stories have illustrated the fact that 

 people care for them and will read them. Can it be that the 

 truth is less interesting ? We will be glad to hear from our 

 subscribers who have interesting material for publication. We 

 know that many of them could supply such articles, but per- 

 haps their modesty forbids or they think their observations are 

 not new. We are willing to risk censure if we republish in- 

 teresting facts. 



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