98 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XVI 



EDITORIAL. 



OUR NEW DRESS. 



Our new dress has doubtless been the first thing to strike you 

 about this number. It is not alone more simple; it is likewise 

 more practical and more economical. 



Entomological publications must dedicate their funds to the 

 last cent to the end for which they are devoted and this is one 

 way of doing it. It has at the same time seemed to us that as it 

 is customary to bind the covers in with the number, it is more 

 easily done, and makes a far better set-up book than the old prac- 

 tice of binding in stiff covers at the end of the volume. We will 

 appreciate the helpful comment of all our readers. 



In passing we may note that this change, together with the one 

 mentioned below, will go far toward enabling us to maintain our 

 standards of quality and quantity. 



AUTHORS' CORRECTIONS. 



The printer's bill is almost like the plumber's — when you think 

 it is down to bed-rock, you run across "Authors' Corrections, 

 $17.83." And the poor editor wonders — but there it is! 



This has a very serious aspect. Everybody knows printers' 

 prices are now higher than ever. In consequence, our highly 

 technical scientific magazines, with small subscription lists, must 

 save at every step. One obvious item to cut out of the cost of 

 printing is " authors' corrections." 



Pursuing this end, much as we dislike it, we are compelled to 

 charge back to authors of papers any items for corrections caused 

 by changes they make in their papers in the galley proof, which 

 are not to rectify typographical errors made by the compositor. 



To avoid this charge, all authors favoring this Bulletin with 

 their work are asked to send in their papers in final shape and 

 correct exactly as they wish to see them published. If papers are 

 not completely finished when sent to us, authors either must forego 

 improvements and additions to papers in proof or else meet the 

 cost of making them. 



