ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., September. 1904. 



The entomological world appears to be having an acute 

 spasm over the nomenclature question. This is a chronic 

 complaint with occasional exacerbations. Human beings are 

 agreed as to mighty few things, and the only way we see to 

 settle this vexed question is by an authoritative congress or 

 court of last resort. At the present time it is difi&cult to find 

 two persons who have exactly the same ideas on this import- 

 ant subject. As we said in the beginning, there are conflicting 

 opinions about almost everything, religion, politics and lesser 

 things, and we do not see why the question of nomenclature 

 should be much of an exception. It is annoying, to be sure, but 

 there is much to be done in entomology irrespective of this. 

 If the collector is restive under the battle of the synonyms, 

 let him take up some problem, such as a life history, and work 

 it out to a conclusion for the benefit of knowledge. It will be 

 good work, and which " mihi itch" genus the thing is placed 

 in is of lesser moment. 



Curator appointed. — C. Abbott Davis, the well-known entomologist 

 and former instructor in the Technical High School, has been appointed 

 curator at the Park Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of James M. Southwick. 



Prof. V. L. Kellogg, of Stanford University, will spend the coming 

 academic year on leave of absence in Europe. Personal letters will be 

 forwarded. Requests for reprints of papers or for specimens, etc., 

 should be addressed, to avoid delay, to the Department of Entomology, 

 Stanford University, California. 



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