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Philadelphia, Pa., June, 1902. 



The ' ' Canadian Entomologist ' ' has been indulging in some 

 interesting discussion apropos of " Ecological labels." Much 

 of this is ancient history, as one of our most esteemed dead 

 and departed entomolgists used color labels long ago and some 

 of us are .still trying to translate them. It is said that an assist- 

 ant who was color-blind put many of these labels on the pins. 

 We hold that an insect pin should have on it the exact locality 

 and date of capture. If individual opinion demands more than 

 this we can offer no objection, but words fail to express our 

 opinion of the individual who has nothing on the pin. (^Peo- 

 ple who sends mseds here please take notiee.^ We object to all 

 systems which string a multitude of labels on the pin, especi- 

 ally if a key is needed to translate them. We object to big bill 

 posters on the pin to be read without a key or to have certain 

 parts underscored. We do not deny that it may be important 

 to know more about an insect than where and when it was cap- 

 tured, and advocate in such cases ^dX printed pin numbers be 

 used corresponding with printed numbers in a record book. 

 Then it is possible to write anything desired about a species. 

 The caution in this case is that it should be seen to that the 

 book is part and parcel of the collectio7i. — H. S. 



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