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time both compilation and repetition of work are valuable and neces- 

 sary. The official practical entomologist is compelled to do this work 

 for the audience for which he is employed to write. But he should 

 not i)ermit this pressure to divert his attention entirely from research. 

 The true naturalist is never so happy as when pushing into the un- 

 known territory of his domain. His fellows should stand up for 

 him and lend him encouragement when he finds it necessary, in order 

 to do original work, to break away from short-sighted taskmasters. 

 " Science is nothing if not free " applies with special pertinence to 

 biological science. If the biologist is to become a producer he must 

 not be made a drudge and kept constantly in harness. 



OUR FACILITIES FOR PUBLICATION. 



Time was when the economic entomologist was cramped for oppor- 

 tunity to publish the results of his studies. At present in this coun- 

 try his facilities are very exceptional. In the bulletins and other 

 publications issued by our National Government the entomologists 

 ])ossess excellent vehicles for sending abroad anything they may wish 

 to put before the public, and a great deal of valuable economic and 

 other entomology comes from that quarter. The experiment station 

 bulletins, too, are so many journals for the scattering of information 

 of this sort, and have disseminated during the past ten years entomo- 

 logical information that would not without them have found tlie light 

 in the next quarter century. 



The workers employed at the Department of Agriculture and at 

 the experiment stations are reaching the public through newspapers 

 and magazines as never before, and the influence of this can be per- 

 ceived by the greater interest shown in such matters by the layman 

 wherever we meet him. No doubt some of the effect on the popular 

 mind now to be perceived is the result of the years of work in class 

 rooms done for many weary years by teachers of biology in the agri- 

 cultural colleges, but there has arisen in the past ten years a quickened 

 interest that can only be credited to the work of the exi)eriment sta- 

 tions and of the Department of Agriculture at Washington since its 

 reorganization. 



FALSE HERALDS. 



Workers along biological lines have suffered of late from the writ- 

 ings of people who are not scientists but get what purports to be 

 scientific information at second hand. The misstatements they some- 

 times make and the sensational stories of results secured which they 

 publish often make the real results published by the real worker 

 appear commonplace by contrast. Professor Somebody is repre- 

 sented as having made a wonderful discovery, which he never 



