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ENTOMO LOGICA L NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., January, 1899. 



The Xews is ten years old, or. rather, is entering its tenth 

 year. Since The Xews entered on its career there have been 

 many changes. Since our first number, of sixteen pages ap- 

 peared, Entomology- has wonderfully advanced; more persons 

 are interested; it is largely taught in our schools and colleges; 

 economic Entomology is recognized as a valuable study. A 

 number of our valuable workei-s have joined the silent major- 

 ity, but let us hope that their places may be filled by othei-s 

 just as enthusiastic, industrious and able. We are not infre- 

 quently confronted with the criticism that the subject has lost 

 its poetry and the delicate touch of Xatiire has been swept 

 away, and, in its place, there is left a dreary list of scientific 

 names, whose meaning can only be known to a favored few, with 

 large scientific libraries at their elbow We try to remedy this 

 in The !N^ews, but receive no help from the critics; they talk, 

 but do not act. We admit that descriptions of new species are 

 as dry as the dust under an infested specimen; but we owe 

 more to the systematic worker than to the growler, who pro- 

 claims from the housetops what should be, but has never 

 put pen to paper. One good friend says we should give less 

 space to " duns " for subscription money and devote the space 

 to original entomological observations, and charge two dollars 

 for The News. When we lie awake half the night devising 

 means to get the one dollar due us, could we be expected to 

 stay up all night trying to get two? DoUare with some en- 

 tomologists seem to be as scarce as the males of Pelechms 

 polycerator . 



