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entific Journals complete. The Astor Library has many works special 

 and general on Entomology, and is making constant additions on the 

 recommendations of our Society and Members. Our own Library is not 

 large, but we are now receiving in exchange almost if not quite all the 

 Entomological Journals of the World; and thus we have all current liter- 

 ature at our hands. 



II. I give you well intended advice; in this I will be brief, as I 

 have already taken enough of your time. 



i. As a necessity we must all be collectors; but while collecting, I 

 urge upon you all to be something more. Be students. Seek to know 

 the history of what you collect, and be not satisfied to be told an insect 

 is to be labelled thus and so. Find out always why it is placed where it is. 



2. Be not only collectors and students, but specialists. Have 

 some part of the family in which you collect, a "hobby". Let it not cover 

 too much ground, but in that genus or subfamily aim to have every spe- 

 cies and variety as well as the stages of the life history. Take up new 

 fields not already "hobbies'' among our members, and work them. A 

 most excellent field just now for a neat conscientious student is the Tin- 

 eidae in Lepidoptera. 



3, Take notes as you go on with your work, and send them in ti- 

 the Journal. Tell your friends in other parts to do the same. Some- 

 may think its solid Entomology makesEnto.Am. too heavy,and too much 

 a Journal for specialists. Let Ento. Am. have the record of rare cap- 

 tures, interesting observations, and new experiences, and so assist it giv- 

 ing it popularity without weakness. 



Finally, set yourselves out to do good work for the Society. Add 

 to its collection of your best. Bring in new members. Seek to increase 

 the interest of its meetings; and the year just begun will be the best rear 

 of its history! 



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Some critical Notes. 



By Geo. H. Horn, M. D. 



In 1882 there appeared the first part of Species ties Cicindelides by 

 W. Dokhtouroff of St. Petersburg comprising the Manticorides and Me- 

 gacephalides. The work has not yet been seen by me but I have recent- 

 ly received through the kindness of M. M. Fleutiaux a copy of his "Re- 

 marques et Observations" on the work of M. Dokhtouroff, published 

 "Le Naturaliste" in 1886. Assuming that M. Fleutiaux has correctlv 

 quoted the author reviewed, the two publications require a little further 

 comment. 



