ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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

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



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

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Philadelphia, Pa., October, 1906. 



The editorial department of the News has its trials and tribu- 

 lations as well as its joys, and it may do some good to tell our 

 readers of both. We are in danger of ruining our bank bal- 

 ance trying to accommodate the people who wish to get in the 

 next number, and in endeavoring to please them this issue con- 

 tains forty pages. Much of the manuscript we receive is type- 

 written, but some received is a disgrace to the authors, neces- 

 sitating the looking up of scientific names in the literature, 

 which can only be guessed at from the writing. We don't know 

 all the names of insects and plants, and don't wish to, but some 

 authors appear to overestimate our knowledge. Then, some 

 names are proposed for the first time. Of course, the author 

 knows what they are, but others can only guess. One of our 

 joys is the fact that we get many letters in praise of the News, 

 and if it did not please, it could not have the phenomenal and 

 steady growth which is continuously maintained. We regret 

 to say that some subscribers fail to appreciate it a dollar's 

 worth, and we have decided in future to make prepayment 



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Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, in the September, 1906, number of The Ento- 

 mologist, gives a list of papers of special interest to the British ento- 

 mologists (1905-06) ; he says, "There are many papers published in 

 America of great value to British workers, although dealing exclusively 

 with American forms." Of fourteen titles, five were published in 

 Entomological News. 



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