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PHILADELPHIA, PA., OCTOBER, 1894. 



THE ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



THE recent meeting in Brooklyn of this body calls up a number of 

 thoughts in relation to the progress of entomology. We may start with 

 the times when a man is said to have been burnt at the stake for witch- 

 craft who had the faculty of converting caterpillars into butterflies. The 

 next period may be considered to have been the time when it was con- 

 sidered an act of insanity to collect insects , as was related of Lady Glan- 

 ville, some of whose relatives tried to set her will aside on such grounds. 

 The time has only recently passed when the collector of insects was 

 dubbed bug-hunter as a term of derision, and looked upon as a harmless 

 kind of lunatic. The time has not yet come wherein the entomologist 

 has found his true place in the respect of the community at large, but he 

 is fully recognized by the vast majority of intelligent people, and his place 

 among naturalists fully established. The meeting above mentioned proves 

 the value of entomology from an economic standpoint and also shows 

 Governmental and State recognition of the importance of this study from 

 a pecuniary standpoint, and we are satisfied that this idea is one that must 

 grow, as anything that appeals to man's pocket-book must be finally es 

 tablished on a firm basis. All this means that entomology, as a study, is 

 receiving its just appreciation, and that economic entomology has a great 

 future, and will undoubtedly be more and more recognized as a pursuit 

 of great value to mankind. We did not have the pleasure of hearing the 

 Presidential address at the meeting, but economic entomology, historically 

 considered, is a subject of much interest, and the address could not have 

 failed to have been one well worth hearing. 



