April, 1919 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 73 
EDITORIAL. 
THE BULLETIN, A PROGRAMME. 
Stagnation is retrogression. Life is ever forward movement. An essen- 
tial condition of success is a divine dissatisfaction and an unceasing striv- 
ing for improvement, with perfection as the ultimate goal. 
The course of our BULLETIN has been steadily upward till it has reached 
its present level. To coordinate its effort for progress and make it a 
telling force, the publication committee has adopted a definite policy. 
Essentially, our publication is designed to serve the Brooklyn Entomolog- 
ical Society and to be its organ of outward expression. 
First, as an essential to all publications is a wide circle of readers, we 
will, from time to time, publish articles of a wide general appeal, not 
exclusively directed to the technical entomologist, but rather to that wider 
reading public whose support would be an added source of strength. In 
technical matter, we purpose to publish in this order of preference: The 
Long Island fauna—monographs, ethology and biology, new species, fauna 
and distribution; the State of New York will next be considered, similarly 
divided as to subject matter; and then we will extend to the United States 
as a whole, to North America, to South America; and to other geograph- 
ical regions. ; 
So far as possible, in equity, preference will be given to articles by 
members of the society and by those who show their interest by subscrib- 
ing to our publication, thus helping us to bear the burden of the cost. 
As our subscription list grows and our operating income with it, this 
publication will also grow and we will be able to publish longer and more 
important articles. 
At present, we want the shorter biological notes of which every entomol- 
ogist has an abundance, if only he will remember that although to him 
they may seem trifles, trifles make perfection, as Michael Angelo said, and 
that perfection is no trifle. 
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THE NEW YORK STATE LIST OF INSECTS. 
The work on this catalogue of the insects of New York is progressing 
somewhat slowly, due, perhaps, to a very natural desire to make it an 
altogether worthy effort. 
At a recent meeting of the Board of Editors, it was determined to 
encourage the publication of local lists, annotated, of course, since a bare 
list of names while serving to indicate distribution and useful to that 
degree, leaves untouched the deeper ethological and distributional problems. 
The BULLETIN is anxious to cooperate as far as possible in this great 
work, as is shown by the list of Long Island Cerambycidz in this number. 
