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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Published monthly (except July and August), in charge of the joint 

 publication committees of the Entomological Section of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and the American Entomological 

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 tain no free list whatever, but will leave no measure untried to make it a 

 necessity to every student of insect life, so that its very moderate annual 

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Philadelphia, Pa., February, 1896. 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



We find that many of our subscribers are interested in prac- 

 tical or economic entomology, and we are receiving letters like 

 the following: "If Prof. Smith, in the Economic Department, 

 would put in some articles pertaining to insects that do or are 

 likely to injure the peach and plum especially, they would in- 

 terest the fruit growers in this locality (Tifton, Ga.)." 



Prof. Smith says he will gladly answer any questions that may 

 be asked by farmers and fruit growers, and that they will be an- 

 swered in his department of the News. He also says he will 

 publish from time to time, articles on insects injurious to peach 

 and plum trees, and also on kindred subjects of interest to the 

 agriculturist and horticulturist. 



Owing to illness, Mrs. A. T. Slosson has been ordered by her physician 

 to give up entomological work for a time. Hard and persistent collecting 

 in New Hampshire has had an injurious effect. Mrs. Slosson has done 

 an enormous amount of work in supplying specialists with material and 

 now needs a rest, and the attention of her correspondents is called to this 

 fact. The work covered by Mrs. Slosson has been the entire field of 

 Entomology, and some of us who only study a single order find we have 

 plenty of work on hand, thus showing what her efforts have been. 



