ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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 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 circumfer- 

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Philadelphia, Pa., December, 1905. 



One way and another we are confronted by the question of 

 the policy of this journaL We realized the fact that we had 

 different classes of subscribers, from the professional entomolo- 

 gist to the simple lover of nature, who may not even know 

 one scientific name from another, and it has been our aim to be 

 of use to all our subscribers. We not infrequently get letters 

 like the following : 



" Most of us would dearly like to have no work but ento- 

 mology, and thus have time for all the reading and researches 

 we want. I had a letter a few months ago from a woman in a 

 small village. She said she was elderly, a widow, had brought 

 up four children by going out sewing and her one amusement 

 was collecting butterflies and moths and learning what she could 

 of them. One of the ladies had given her an "Outlook" with a 

 moth article of mine. She said ' I never knew before that any- 

 one had written about such things' . She asked me to tell her 

 of books and magazines which she could buy, as she had 

 money saved and said : ' You don't know what it is to me 

 to think of finding books to help me. I have been just starv- 

 ing for them.' To such a person the News is a treasure- 

 trove, and I hope it will keep to the popular side. For twenty- 

 five years she had kept at her collecting without knowing the 

 name of one species ! It was as pathetic a bit of life as often 

 comes in my way." This woman is now a reader of Ento- 

 mological News. 



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