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ENTOM OLOGICAL NEWS. 



[The Conductors of Entomological News solicit, and will thankfully receive items 

 of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author's name will be given 

 in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] 



To Contributors. —All contributions will be considered and passed upon at our 

 earliest convenience, and as far as may be, will be published according to date of recep- 

 tion. Entomological News has reached a circulation, both in numbers and circumfei- 

 ence, as to make it necessary to put " copy" into the hands of the printer, for each number, 

 three weeks before date of issue. This should be remembered in sending special or im- 

 portant matter for certain issue. Twenty-five "extras" without change in form will be 

 given free when they are wanted, and this should be so stated on the MS. along with the 

 number desired. The receipt of all papers will be acknowledged. — Ed. 



Philadelphia, Pa., October, 1898. 



We must again remind some of our subscribers that it costs 

 money to publish the News and they cannot expect us to send 

 it to them gratis. Indeed, it is dishonest to take a journal from 

 the post-office and not pay for it. If you do not want the News 

 frankly say so, and then we will know where we stand. We do 

 not wish the News to share the fate of " The Brooklyn Bulletin," 

 " Papilio" and " Entomologica Americana," which are now 

 memories of the past. One dollar a year is a small sum, and 

 anybody who does not take one dollar's worth of interest in 

 Entomology had better drop natural history. 



" Before this meeting Papilio, so far as its present management 

 was concerned, was doomed. An appeal to its subscribers, two 

 months before, not for alms, but for money justly its due, had 

 been answered by the receipt of the money owed it by three sub- 

 scribers; in other words the princely sum of six dollars had been 

 added to its treasury, though much over $150.00 was needed, 

 and $200.00 was due," — Editor "Papilio" 4, 187, 1884. Then it 

 died. Then came "Entomologica Americana" and existed 

 awhile and then it died. Where is the fault ? What is the trouble ? 

 Shall it be said of Entomological News, in the near future, 

 and then it also died? 



The place of the lamented Dr. Lintner as entomologist of the State of 

 New York has been filled by the governor by appointing to that position 

 Mr. Mark Vernon Slingerland. 



