Mass.; the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, Penna.; the Field 
Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois; the Museum of 
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; the Boston Society 
of Natural History. Many colleges also have fine museum collec- 
tions and there are many private collections of note. 
To enumerate the important works published in recent years 
would take entirely too much time and space. 
A number of important journals have appeared but have been 
discontinued, but during the time of their life were important 
factors in entomological work. Among those that have ceased to 
exist may be mentioned : « The Practical Entomologist »; « The 
American Entomologist »; « The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entom- 
ological Society »; « Papilio »; « Entomologica Americana »; 
« Insect Life ». At the present time the journals of America 
devoted to Insects compare favorably with those published in any 
part of the world. « The Transactions of the American Entom- 
ological Society »; « Journal of the New York Entomological 
Society »; « Annals of the Entomological Society of America »; 
« Journal of Economic Entomology »; « Proceedings of the Entom- 
ological Society of Washington »; « Psyche » and « Entomolo- 
gical News » are all doing excellent work for the cause. 
The most hopeful and interesting outcome has been the public 
recognition of the value and benefits to be derived from the 
study. 
This appreciation by the people has been largely brought about 
by economic entomology in general and particularly by that 
branch known as the transmission of disease by Insects. The 
demand for trained entomologists is greater than the supply, and 
we are therefore getting a better class of men to take up the study. 
The educated college man, the trained student, is taking the place 
of those who took up entomology for the love of it and gradually 
developed into the professional entomologist. Many of our colleges 
have courses in entomology, and the number of students taking the 
course are increasing every year. When one State finds it necessary 
to expend a million dollars a year and also receives aid from the 
National Government, which appropriates three hundred thousand 
dollars toward the work, we can readily understand how immense 
some of the problems,are and why entomologists are in demand. 
Economic entomology has had a prodigious growth in America. 
The principal workers in this branch in the early days have 
