Vol. VII, No. 5.] INSECT LIFE. [Issued July, 1895. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



This is the Last Number of Insect Life —For administrative reasoiis it 

 has been decided to close the publication of Insect Life with this 

 number, which completes volume Tii. That the publication has been 

 of value to its many classes of readeis, including working naturalists 

 and teachers, andespecially farmers and fruit-growers, we can not doubt, 

 for many appreciative expressions have reached this oflBce. "Nature," 

 for instance, probably the liighest scientific authority printed in the 

 English language, has recently (No. 1325, March 21, 1895) been good 

 enougli to refer to Insect Life as " the premier of entomological bul- 

 letins," and refers to the fact that the results acliieved by American 

 workers should lead the English Government to a more generous recog- 

 nition of work in economic entomology. Furthermore, it has been of 

 great value to the Department, giving an opportunity for the speedy 

 publication of results of immediate importance, and of short notes 

 which, while of interest, would perhaps not have been published in any 

 other form; but far more from the fact that it has greatly increased the 

 number of correspondents of the Division of Entomology and has in- 

 terested a large corps of accurate observers, not only in the work of the 

 division, but in the science of entomology in general. 



For the immediate future, at least, the place of Insect Life will be 

 filled by the publication of two series of bulletins from the Division of 

 Entomology. A new series of general bulletins will be begun, the old 

 series concluding with No. 33, published March 4, 1895, These bulle- 

 tins will comprise short reports on special observations, and the miscel- 

 laneous results of the work of the division in practical and economic 

 lines and in directions of general interest, thus including in the main 

 many of the classes of articles which have been published in Insect 

 Life. The second series of bulletins, published at rarer intervals, will 

 contain the results of the purely scientific work of the members of the 

 office force, and will consist largely of longer or shorter monographic 

 papers on groups of North American insects. The bulletins ot the 

 second series will be distributed only "to libraries and to working ento- 

 mologists, and will be published, therefore, in small editions. Those of 

 the first series, however, will be sent to all of the present readers of 



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