The publication committee consists of" the Editor and Messrs. B. 

 Neuinoegen, H. Edwards, E. L. Graef and F. Tcpper; and the two 

 journals are therefore represented in the management. 



The Journal will be edited by iMr. J. B. Smith, wlu) has heretofore 

 had charge of the Bulletin, and we are glad to announce that Prof C. 

 V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist, who has also become a life member of 

 die Society, has promised his assistance in making the journal a success. 



I'he proceedings of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, and of the 

 Entomological Society of Washington, will be regularly published, and 

 any other F.ntomological Society that will send us an abstract of its 

 proceedings will receive like consideration. 



We ask therefore that all interested in the advance of American 

 I'hitomology give us their substantial and hearty aid in our new enter- 

 ])rise. Thk Pibi.uwtiox Com-Mitike, 



Visit to an old time Entomologist. 



\h L)k. joHX (j. Morris. 



One evening, some ye.irs ago, while sipping tea with the family ul 

 a friend in his garden in an interior Ohio village, I hastily and uncere- 

 moniouslv sprung up from my chair, much to the astonishment of m\- 

 friends, and cajHured a beetle tliat was lazily flying by Well, I .spilled 

 mv tea and dropped my flannel cake and tongue, (not my own, it was 

 delicious beef tongue) but in the scramble, I secured the insect. 



"You should visit Baron jenison, before you leave Ohio'', exclaimed 

 the laiiy of the house, ''he *lso catches bugs and is a queer specimen of 

 a big-bug himself, and yet not a hum-bug either.' 



''Baron Jenison!' I replied, "•! would go a hundretl miles out of mv 

 way to .see him, for I have heard of him as a man worth visiting.'" 



Having received directions, behold me early next morning on my 

 way to visit a foreign titled entomologist who had settled down in Central 

 Ohio. I had never corresponded with him, but 1 hail heartl of him. I 

 knew that he was closely allied to one of the proudest families of the 

 English nobility, but he himself was a German by birth. For some years 

 he had held a ilistinguished rank in the army of a German prince. He 

 had enjoyed all the advantages of a German university education. He was 

 a gentleman of refined manners and ornamental accomplishments, — he 

 excelled in music and as a draughtsman he had few e(]uals. His leisure 



