JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



OCTOBER, 1914 



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We hope in the next issue to practically clear up" a number of papers 

 which have been held for some months, owing to the necessity of giving 

 precedence to the proceedings of the annual meetings. The Editor 

 would add in further explanation that there has been an unusual 

 amount of m.atter submitted for publication and, owing to our limited 

 financial resources, only about so much could appear in each number. 



We give on another page a brief note respecting one foreign serial. 

 It is suspected that, OAving to the war, some editors have been too busy 

 to even send out an explanatory note. The gigantic struggle, with its 

 accompanying waste of life, energy and resources, means a general and 

 serious retrenchiricnt in scientific work, especially among the nations 

 most seriously involved. It is to be most earnestly hoped that the 

 larger museums with their priceless treasures — their types and unpub- 

 lished data — :will escape the destruction that seems to have been the 

 lot of some historical treasures. Even though this be the case, the 

 imperative demand for men — a demand which will probably not be 

 fully met in a generation — means the depletion of scientific staffs and 

 the dropping by many of investigations which promise much for human 

 welfare. We can all imagine the nearly finished manuscript laid aside, 

 perhaps forever, and other papers held for years because of the sudden 

 contraction in publication facilities — evident in the reduced size of 

 numbers and possibly by the suspension of serials. We extend to our 

 associates in the afflicted countries a heartfelt sympathy and we would 

 voice the hope that there may be an early cessation of the deadly 

 struggle and a speedy resumption of normal acti\ities. 



