ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Philadelphia, Pa,, December, 1918. 



Rules and Suggestions for Our Contributors. 



The following letter was received from the Secretary-Treas- 

 urer 6f the Entomological Society of Washington in April. 

 1918: 



The Executive Committee of the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington has recently adopted certain rules and suggestions governing 

 articles published in the Proceedings of the Society. A copy of these 

 rules and suggestions, which are to be published shortly in the first 

 number of Volume XX of the Society's Proceedings, is enclosed. 



In adopting these rules the Executive Committee passed the fol- 

 lowing resolution: first, that copies of these rules and suggestions be 

 sent to other periodicals publishing articles on Entomology ; second, 

 that said copies be accompanied by a letter recommending the adoption 

 (unless already in force) of these or similar rules and suggestions. 



In the days when there are so many workers in Entomology and so 

 much is written it is believed that there should be certain definite 

 and understood policies which will tend to make it necessary for all 

 authors to give in their papers certain definite information which is 

 of great importance to contemporaneous and future workers and will 

 assist in stabilizing our nomenclature. Rule 4 is one of the most 

 necessary, especially when we consider that much of the indexing has 

 to be done by persons with limited knowledge. Suggestion 6 is also 

 of great importance and the subject it covers is most often considered 

 of but little importance by those dealing with genereal biology, mor- 

 phology, etc. 



We trust that you will give this matter careful consideration, and 

 hope that you will believe it desirable to adopt similar rules which will 

 help to build our science on a firm foundation. 



As the Rules referred to emanated from the Washington 

 Society, the Editors of the News considered it as a matter of 

 courtesy that we shotild withhold comment upon them until 

 their appearance in the Proceedings. The first ntimber of 

 Volume XX ( for January, 1918) seems to have reached sub- 

 scribers here on October 21 ; the first page contains the fol- 

 lowing : 



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