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Volume 3 (Volume i, New Series) was also well illustrated and 

 contained a large number of interesting and important articles. It 

 quite maintained the standard set by the earlier volumes, although 

 Walsh's sound and often caustic contributions are greatly missed. 



At the end of the volume, publication ceased. President Garfield had 

 lieen elected in November, 1880, and Riley had strong hope of return- 

 ing to the Department of Agriculture under the new administration, 

 a hope that was fulfilled. 



The next economic i)eriodical to make its appearance was official. 

 It was entitled " Insect Life " and was published by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture under the editorship of the Entomologist 

 (Riley) and his assistants. At least that was the statement made on the 

 title page of each of the numbers of the first volume (July, 1888, to 

 June, 1889). Volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were published under the joint 

 editorship of C. V. Riley and L, O. Howard, and Volume 7 under the 

 editorship of the present writer. Insect Life filled a useful purpose. 

 It offered opportunity for the publication of short articles, notes 

 and extracts from correspondence, usually of timely interest, which 

 could not well have been published elsewhere. As it was issued 

 gratuitously by the government, it was printed in a large edition, 

 and sets are to be found in most of the entomological libraries 

 all over the world. It was well illustrated, most of the figures having 

 been drawn by Miss Lily Sullivan, for many years the very competent 

 artist of the Federal entomological service. Miss Sullivan was a mod- 

 est, retiring, but very capable little woman, who came to the Depart- 

 ment in the early i88o's under Riley and who profited by the instruc- 

 tions of this skilled illustrator and who developed a style of her own. 

 I remember a naive remark which she made one day : " What will 

 there be for me to do when I have drawn all the insects? " 



Of course, there were other entomological journals. The Canadian 

 Entomologist, for example, was founded in 1869, and, although it 

 was published in Canada and supported by a grant from the Province 

 of Ontario, very many of its contributors lived in the United States. 

 It has continued consecutively as a monthly magazine, and is now in 

 its 59th volume. The journal named Psyche was started in 1874 by 

 the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Entomological Society, and is still 

 being published. A journal known as The North American Ento- 

 mologist was started by A. R. Grote, and lived for the year between 

 July, 1879, and June, 1880. One named Papilio was started in 1881 

 by Henry Edwards, and lived to appear in four volumes, dying in 

 1884. This journal related entirely to the Lcpidoptcra. From 1885 to 

 1890 was published a magazine known as luitomologica Americana 



