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Philadelphia, Pa., April. 1903. 



The earth is becoming smaller. We do not mean that it is 

 shrinking, but that the facilities for getting over or around it 

 are so great that it does not seem as big as it did in the past. 

 It is no uncommon thing for European Entomologists to visit 

 this country on collecting tours or for the study and inspection 

 of our collections. American Entomologists also go abroad for 

 similar purposes. For those who can afford it nothing is 

 pleasanter than to go after some interesting or rare species in 

 its native haunts. Irately we have had the pleasure of meeting 

 two entomologists from Germany who have been collecting in 

 this country, and one of them is now planning another vaca- 

 tion trip to get some of our interesting species like Argy?mis 

 diana and nitocris. The other gentleman is interested in the 

 Coleoptera. The geographical barriers will gradually be 

 broken, and entomologists will become more and more inter- 

 ested in the species of the world as time goes on. This is as 

 it should be, and will create an interest in the genera from the 

 standpoint of the species of the world. Genera are now de- 

 scribed without reference to the correlation of the species, and 

 it will be years before this part of our classification is placed on 

 anything like a firm foundation. 



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