Americana 



VOL. I. 



BROOKLYN, APRIL, 1885. 



NO. 1, 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Experience has shown that the Entomologists of the United States 

 have not been disposed to give that support, which would insure financial 

 success to the various entomological journals that have been published, 

 and the feeling among many, of late years, has been that in union there 

 would be strength. At the meeting of the Entomological Club of the 

 A. A. A. S. , in September 1884, the desirability of a union of existing 

 journals was unanimously conceded. 



Negotiations between the representatives of the "Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society", and "Papilio'', led to an arrangement 

 by which these Journals were discontinued, and all intention of reviving 

 them abandoned. In their stead, a new Journal — of which this is the 

 first number — was created. 



The new Journal will be devoted to Entomology in general, and 

 the support of leading specialists in all orders has been promised. The 

 effort will be to make it interesting and instructive to all persons in any 

 way interested in entomology. 



For many reasons the issuing of such a Journal as an individual 

 enterprise was deemed undesirable, and the representatives of "Papilio" 

 therefore became life members of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 

 which has been duly incorporated. Provision has been made for 

 a permanent publication fund which, it is hoped, will place the new 

 Journal on a sound financial basis. 



