April, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I05 



next stopping place to be Philadelphia, providing everything 

 went well with us. We were not disappointed, and at seven 

 o'clock Sunday morning, July 23rd, our train arrived at Broad 

 Street Station. And thus ended a short but interesting collect- 

 ing trip to the Rocky Mountains. 



A Bibliography of Entomological Glossaries. 

 By Alec. Arsene Girault. 



The list of glossaries following is given upon request, and 

 comprises those consulted in the preparation of an entomolo- 

 gical dictionary. This is to such a degree incomplete that its 

 publication, even within three or four years, is doubtful, and 

 hence, knowing the need now felt for works of this nature, the 

 bibliography herewith given has been prepared. 



The meagreness of the list readily shows under what diffi- 

 culties the present-day entomologist is laboring in regard to the 

 language of his science. Vocabularies are unknown, and the 

 glossaries now existing are very incomplete and imperfect, the 

 largest and best being but an imperfect compilation of those 

 preceding. No attempt has as 5'et been made to define terms 

 with that accuracy, nicety and invariability so essential in 

 scientific language. 



The Standard Dictionary (Funk and Wagnall's Company, 

 N. Y.) is at present indispensable ; the entomological terms 

 have been defined by Dr. L. O. Howard. Its bulk is a great 

 draw-back, but it is the authority on general entomological 

 terms. A rather useful paper has been published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 3rd series. 

 Zoology, I, pp. 1 15-143, on Scientific Names of Latin and 

 Greek Derivation, by W. Miller, Other general zoological 

 and physiological terms, not generalh' given in entomological 

 glossaries, may be found in works on those subjects, including 

 also works on evolution. A few of these are given in a sup- 

 plementary list, but no attempt has been made to list anything 

 like all of them. 



The Bibliography of Entomological glossaries follows. 



