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^ANNOUNCEMENT. 



After ten years' work as Honorary Treasurer in connection with 

 the publication of The Entomnlonist's Record and Journal of Variation, 

 I feel obliged, with great reluctance and regret, to give up this share 

 of my work, at any rate, for the present. 



The great increase of work, due to the steady development of the 

 subscription list and the difficulty of collecting subscriptions from a 

 certain small section of our subscribers, make this step necessary. One 

 surmises that a professional man may not be altogether a fair judge of 

 the " business " methods adopted by the Entomological " man in the 

 street " to get something for nothing, but a ten years' retrospect leaves 

 one with the impression that a few who still manage to enter our 

 ranks would be rejected in most other social congeries. 



When the editors of the Kiitoniologist's Monthly Maf/azine com- 

 menced their second series some fourteen years ago, they pointed out 

 that it would be hard to find a parallel to their own case, riz., a 

 magazine that had been carried on for 25 years for the advancement of 

 science, and on which, although receipts and expenses would about 

 balance, no financial profit had been made by the proprietors. 

 Although I cannot claim that The Entoiiioloiiiat's Record, &c., has been 

 in existence 25 years, nor that a debtor and creditor account would 

 quite neutralise each other, or give a balance on the right side, I can 

 claim that, for 15 years, the magazine has been conducted without 

 profit, that any deficit that has occurred has been met, by the Editor- 

 Proprietor, and that the production of an useful, up-to-date, read- 

 able magazine, that would advance the scientific study of ento- 

 mology, has been the sole aim of those who have ungrudgingly worked 

 for its success. Further, that with an honest effort on the part of 

 careless subscribers to pay up their subscriptions to date and without 

 giving trouble, the future of the magazine, financially, is now more 

 than fully assured. 



The influence of the Kntoitiolo(/ist's Record on the other entomo- 

 logical magazines during this period has been most marked. To keep 

 pace, larger numbers, closer printing and more plates have been given, 

 and, at least in one instance, an useful index replaces that which was 

 by courtesy termed an index in former years. Without becoming a 

 rival to either, and recognising that no entomologist worthy of the 

 name can afford to do without any, unless he join the casual army of 

 laggards, I think I can fairly claim that the influence of the magazine 

 has been to raise the quantity and quality of what we may term 

 entomological scraps, that may be used up for standard scientific work 

 when the future author is seeking his materials for special work. 



Altogether, therefore, when the success of the magazine appears to 

 be approaching highwater mark, I feel at liberty to hand over the 

 financial rems to another, and the subscriptions for Vol. xvi will be 

 collected by Mr. J. Herbert Tutt, whose energy and greater leisure 

 will no doubt enable him to do this part of the work more efficiently, 

 although I still propose to distribute the magazine, and any mis- 

 carriage of numbers, &c., will be referable, as hitherto, to me. All 

 outstanding subscriptions and accounts must, however, be paid to me. 

 I have made myself responsible for these up to, and including. Vol. xv, 

 and trust that those who owe anything to the magazine will send the 

 December 15th, 1903. 



