24 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Vol. XIV 
EDITORIAL. 
THE Far FLUNG FIELD oF ENTOMOLOGY. 
“One phase of zodlogy has for its aim to give a descriptive inventory of 
the animal kingdom. We should remember, however, that this is merely 
one aspect’ of zoology.” (Locy.) 
The day is here when entomology can take its due place in the forefront 
of the sciences, together with chemistry, physics, astronomy and those 
others which have heretofore been called exact. Too long have we ento- 
mologists been obsessed with our heritage of ridicule and neglect by the 
great world about us; too long have we modestly hid ourselves from the 
searching gaze of men. At last we are justified spectacularly by the for- 
tunes of war to the general public. 
But we must take to heart the words of Locy we quote. Our science has 
lingered far too long in that preliminary stage of sorting and ticketing and 
labelling, to the neglect of its realities—life, habits, physiology, psychology, 
ecology, development of the individual and of the stirps. We entomolo- 
gists have for our field the vastest assemblage of living beings, exhibiting 
innumerable variations in form, endless diversity of habit, multitudinous 
environments—but still we lay stress on new species, varieties, dichotomies, 
to the neglect in a great’ degree of the other and no less important threads 
in the web of life. 
If we mean to succeed, if we mean to make our science the dominant 
form of biological research, the hour is here when we must take the end- 
less material so lavishly spread before us, and from it add to the structure 
of biology the experimental evidence of its many academic theories. It 
rests with us to take the all-embracing view and to strive for an ideal; or 
to continue to plod on with our eyes on the ruts, never once realizing the 
wonders and beauties about us. If we fail to know and appreciate our 
opportunities, if we fail to grasp them and make them realities, ours be the 
shame, where we might have had the honor. 
Let us not tie down our imaginations; let us not fear to mount to the 
very sun. If we fail in high endeavor, we fail honorably, and others will 
profit. If we succeed, we taste the sweet savor of accomplishment and 
enjoy the recompense of helping others to knowledge, of adding our share 
to the edifice of science. 
Japlses AP 183. 
