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All a slight difference of punctuation and capitalization. 



This is by way of introduction to the remark that authors 

 must have the original foreign text before them and follow it 

 slavishly; or else they must have a working knowledge of the 

 principal European tongues. If they have not this accomplish- 

 ment, or rather, necessary equipment, then, in justice to them- 

 selves and to their readers and disciples, they ought to pocket 

 pride and appeal to some one more familiar than they with the 

 foreign language in question. They should also insist on 

 printers following copy, out of the window if necessary ; and in 

 reading and checking all proof and insisting upon the correc- 

 tions called for. 



One of the faults of our much vaunted systems of education 

 lies in their apparent neglect of anything outside our borders or 

 of a non-utilitarian nature. But entomologists, being men of 

 independent cast of mind, should rise to the occasion and have 

 the courage to study and be right. 



No entomologist who contemplates serious work is completely 

 equipped without a working knowledge of Latin, French, and 

 German, exact so far as it goes. 



Such lapses and solecisms as that referred to should never be 

 permitted to appear by author, publisheji, or printer, in a work A 

 whose importance renders it a standard reference for many 

 future years. 



