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under the auspices of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. And in 

 1890 was begun Entomological News, published by the American 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia, which continues to appear. 



In all of these journals will be found articles of a distinct economic 

 bearing, but they were published mainly for the benefit of people 

 interested in insects, their classification and habits. 



Of course, much of the important matter in economic entomology 

 today finds a place in the Journal of Economic Entomology, the 

 periodical started by the American Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists in 1908. 



About this time it had become evident that the increasing number 

 of working and publishing entomologists of all kinds in the United 

 States had become so great that a new national organization should 

 be founded and that this organization should issue its own publica- 

 tion which should include the longer papers which could find no place 

 in the journals already existing and which were of so technical a 

 character or which dealt so especially with aspects of entomology 

 other than the economic side that they could find place in neither 

 government nor State bulletins and reports nor in the Journal of 

 the Association of Economic Entomologists. 



This new organization, founded in 1907, was named the Entomo- 

 logical Society of America. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the name 

 American Entomological Society had already been adopted by the 

 old Entomological Society of Philadelphia, but, in spite of the simi- 

 larity of the names, no harmful confusion seems to have arisen. The 

 membership of the new organization was large from the start, and in 

 1908 it published its first volume of Annals, which were issued in 

 quarto parts. The first volume covered 393 pages, with 24 plates. The 

 volume for 1928 (Vol. 20) covered 558 pages, with 25 plates. Forty- 

 three plates, by the way, were published with Volume 18 (1925). 



The Annals of this Society have preserved a very high character. 

 Many of its contributors have been professional economic ento- 

 mologists who have used this organ for the publication of results of 

 basic investigations which would unnecessarily encumber the direct 

 accounts of results and of practical conclusions drawn from these 

 results that could be displayed in official bulletins. The Annals has 

 also included the work of advanced research students done in the 

 laboratories of the larger universities where the teaching has grown 

 deeper and more basic as time has gone on. 



The Journal of Entomology and Zoology, now (1929) in its 21st 

 year, published by the Pomona College (California) Department of 

 Zoology, has contained very many important entomological articles. 



