JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



AUGUST, 1911 



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 terest to subscribers. Papers will be published, so far as possible, in the order of re- 

 ception. All extended contributions, at least, should be in the hands of the editor the 

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The annual midsummer dominance of the house fly is at hand, 

 together with a large crop of newspaper paragraphs and popular 

 articles in regard to the situation. It is evident that correct informa- 

 tion is much more widely distributed than in earlier years though 

 there are still occasions where the guiding hand of the entomologist 

 might have bettered matters. The present is an excellent time to 

 create a favorable sentiment for cooperation in communities for the 

 purpose of controlling flies, even though nothing more than a start be 

 made this season. 



The general interest in insects as disease carriers is strikingly shown 

 in the ten-page bibliography appearing elsewhere in this issue and 

 listing only the more important contributions during 1910 to this phase 

 of economic entomology. Reference to the list shows that the results 

 of these recent investigations are being incorporated in various text 

 books and general works. There is also a perceptible widening in the 

 sphere of study. Mosquitoes and flies, with special reference to their 

 part in the dissemination of malaria, yellow fever and typhoid fever, 

 still receive attention, but in addition there is a voluminous literature 

 dealing with the relation of flies to other diseases, especially sleeping 

 sickness. Plague and its connection with rats, squirrels and fleas has 

 been a subject of prime importance on the Pacific coast. The part 

 body parasites may have in the spread of disease has aroused active 

 interest on the part of several investigators. Only recently a painful 

 cutaneous eruption has been definitely associated with a predaceous and 

 hitherto supposedly entirely beneficial mite. 



The recent action of the George Washington University in conferring 

 the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine upon an entomologist, for 

 "distinguished services to science in relation to preventive medi- 

 cine," is gratifying testimony to the position entomological knowledge 



