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Official Bulletin of the Boston Entomological \Club. JuU I ] 



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Rudolf C. B. Eartsch . - - 



46 Guernsey St-, RosHndale, Mass 



Vol. I 



January 15, 1917 



No. 3 



Editor's 

 Corner 



There appeared, recently, in the 

 Canadian Entomologist an article 

 by the Editor of the Bulletin of 

 the Brooklyn Entomological Society, giving the reasons 

 for the unpopularity of many of our Entomological 

 papers with amateurs and also their non-success finan- 

 cially. I believe the points discussed are true as far 

 as they go but they are not the essential reasons for the 

 different failures. In the first place all our Entomolo- 

 gical papers do not specialize, but try to cover the 

 entire field of entomological work. The result is that 

 an Entomologist must subscribe to every journal pub- 

 lished if he desires to keep in close touch with new 

 discoveries and new methods, and there is where the 

 main difficulty arises. To do this means a rather 

 heavy outlay of money. The Entomologist if finan- 

 cially able subscribes to as many papers as he can. 

 Some arrive without a single article of interest to 

 him, but he must have them for by chance the next 

 number may be just what he is looking for. This 

 scattering of interesting articles disgusts the average 

 collector and after a year or two, he drops the different 

 papers and depends on what he can pick up in his 

 local libraries. And secondly as long as the Editors 

 of the various journals depend on the subscription 

 price to make their paper a success, just so much 

 longier must they be a financial failure Subscriptions 



