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Vol. XLII. GUELPH, JANUARY, 1910. No. i. 



VALEDICTORY. 



More than forty years ago, in August, 186S, the Editor put forth the 

 first number of the Canadian ENJOiMOLorTiST, a modest venture of eight 

 pages. The same Editor last month brought to completion the 41st 

 volume of this periodical. He has not, however, been continuously carry- 

 ing on this work during all those years. After the publication of the first 

 five volumes he was succeeded by his friend. Dr. William Saunders, of 

 London, who edited the magazine for the next thirteen years. In 1S86 

 Dr. Saunders was appointed Director of the Experimental Farms of the 

 Dominion, and found his time so fully employed that he requested Dr. 

 liethune to take his place and become Editor once more. Thirteen of the 

 forty-one volumes have thus been edited by Dr. Saunders, and twenty-eight 

 by Dr. Bethune. 



It is now necessary to make a change and transfer the charge of the 

 magazine to younger hands. Tiic weight of advancing years and the 

 disability occasioned by impaired eyesight have led the long-lime Editor to 

 ask for relief, and to shift the burden of responsibility to other shoulders. 

 It is with much reluctance that he gives up this labour of love and ceases 

 to correspond with his widely-scattered contributors, to whose kindness 

 and ability the success of the magazine has been so largely due. To say 

 good-bye to old friends is a painful duty, and to give up work because one 

 has become too old for its proper accomplishment is perhaps more painful 

 still. But time is inexorable ; there is no escape from the changes it 

 brings, and so it becomes a paramount necessity to make way for the 

 younger men, to pass on into their vigorous hands the torch of science 

 which one can no longer hold on high. 



Happily a worthy successor is available, and the announcement is 

 made with much gratification that Dr. E. M. Walker, Lecturer in Biology 

 at the University of Toronto, has accepted the position of Editor of the 

 Canadian Entomologist. Dr. Walker's name is widely known in 

 scientific circles through the admirable work that he has accomplished in 

 the Orthoptera and Odonata, to which orders he has especially directed 

 his attention. It is earnestly hoped that the many friends of the Editor 

 who now retires will be as considerate, as kind, and as generous to the 



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