Che Canadian Entomologist. 
MORIN RE Gy LONDON ONT JANUARY 187.) te No. 1 
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN—GREETING ! 
A Happy New Year to you, kindly reader; may the days of this year 
_ roll joyously along for you wherever you may be, whether your lot is 
cast in our peaceful Canadian land, or in the sea-girt isles of the old home, 
whether in the midst of the matured Republic of our cousins across the 
lakes, or in the latest democracy of /a belle France, whether on the shores 
of the stormy Atlantic, or on the borders of the broad Pacific, whatever 
your nationality, whatever your position in life, we look upon you as one 
of our brotherhood of Entomologists, and we include you amongst our 
friends. 
For the fourth time we are commencing a new volume, and we do so 
with feelings of more than ordinary satisfaction, inasmuch as we have 
at length fulfilled all our promises by the punctual completion of the pre. 
ceding volume within the appointed year. The third volume we com- 
menced with the issue of its first number in April last, and the second in 
June ; when we began the preparation of the third in the following month, 
our task seemed hopeless as regarded the performance of it before the close 
of the year. However, by the regular issue of double numbers, we were 
enabled to complete the volume of two hundred and forty pages, with its 
forty illustrations, by the end of 1871, and now we start fair with the new 
year, and hope to be regular and punctual throughout it. While we thus 
congratulate ourselves upon our satisfactory position, we must by no 
means omit to mention—it would be ungrateful in us indeed to do so— 
how much we are indebted to others, and how highly we esteem the kind 
assistance that has been so freely afforded us. Especially we would offer 
our thanks to those friends outside of our own country whose contribu- 
tions have added so much to the value of our pages. May we beg that 
they will lay us under still further obligations by the continuance of their 
favours during the coming year, and that others also will not hesitate to 
follow their example? 
While we thank our many friends for their kind assistance and encour- 
agement, we regret that we have to mete out a word of censure for others 
