ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Philadelphia, Pa., December, 1919. 



After Thirty Years. 



When this number of the News reaches the reader, there 

 will stand on the editor's shelves thirty completed volumes of 

 this journal, unbound, except for their original pink paper 

 covers, which, when they first appeared, led one subscriber, 

 and contributor to the first number, to protest that the color 

 suggested too much a patent medicine advertisement. For a 

 few issues that subscriber's copy was bound in white paper, 

 but the pink cover was retained for the magazine as enabling 

 it to be picked out readily from others in a pile. 



The Treasurer of the Society which has stood back of the 

 News from the start is fond o.f telling the story that when it 

 first appeared it was freely predicted that it would not last 

 six months, but time has proven the contrary. 



There lies before the editor a single sheet, printed on both 

 sides, headed, "A New Entomological Journal. To be pub- 

 lished Under the auspices of the Entomological Section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the Ameri- 

 can Entomological Society." It is dated "Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Dec. 1, 1889" and continues: 



It has for some time been apparent to Entomoloa^ists in this country 

 that there was unoccupied room for a journal of Entomology devoted 

 less to the dry details of descriptive and classificatory work and more 

 to the news and gossip which is always of interest to entomological 

 workers. 



The circular continues in the words of the Announcement, 

 occupying the first two pages of Volume I, Number 1, which 

 actually appeared January 14, 1890. 



The pressure of other work and the non-receipt of desired 

 information have made it impossible to fulfil alwavs the pur- 

 poses for which the News was founded, and we st^'ll welcome, 

 to quote the Announcement again : 



Scientific papers, news notes, reports of societies, etc., . . from 



all sources to make this journal just what its name implies, a compend 

 of entomological news. 



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