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avoid causes of difference, the easier it should be to do so. Then 

 it should be an inspiration to an amateur or beginner to know that 

 he is a fellow member with all the most eminent entomologists 

 of the Continent, and should be a spur to his ambition to do 

 some good work in the science worthy of the Society. 



But there must necessarily be many members, especially 

 among the amateurs, who can hardly hope to come into personal 

 touch with the leaders of the science through their inability to 

 attend the meetings, and there is much danger of such members 

 losing interest in the Society and dropping their membership, 

 and to guard against that, I would strongly urge that we should 

 publish something. I entirely agree with the view of the Pub- 

 lication Committee, that it is not desirable to take over any exist- 

 ing journal nor to publish anything that would occupy the field 

 of any existing journal, or to make any of the current periodicals 

 the official organ of the Society. The publication of a journal 

 would hardly be feasible, unless the Society had a fixed head- 

 quarters, and that would tend too much to localize it and detract 

 from its breadth of character. The suggestion, that we should 

 sometime undertake the publication of a dignified series of pub- 

 lications in the form of "Annals" or "Memoirs," which would be 

 distinctly creditable to American Entomology, is to be com- 

 mended, but I respectfully submit that we should not wait until 

 we are in a position to enter upon so large and important a pro- 

 ject. Such publications, especially if well illustrated, are costly 

 and could hardly be issued free to our members, unless the annual 

 subscription were greatly raised, and I would, therefore, suggest, 

 in order to keep the scattered members in touch with the move- 

 ment, the issue of an annual report containing the constitution 

 and by-laws, alphal)etical list of members with their addresses, 

 lists of fellows and honorary fellows, detailed reports of the meet- 

 ings held and of the action of all committees, the President's or 

 presiding officer's annual address, and such papers read before 

 the Society as are not reserved by their authors for publication 

 through some other channel, and that this report be mailed free 

 to all members, who would thus see that they were getting some- 

 thing for their membership and were not forgotten. 



In regard to the main objects of the Society, viz., the \)\-o- 

 motion of the science of entomology in all its l)ranches and the 

 securing of co-operation in all measures tending to that end, we 

 may ask how are these ends to be attained? In the nature of 



