﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXIII.] DECEMBEE, 1890. [No. 331. 



EDITORIAL. 



Early in the present year we were favoured by various 

 correspondents with kindly suggestions as to the future of the 

 ' Entomologist.' As might perhaps be expected, these suggestions 

 were very diverse, and, anxious as we were to meet the wishes of 

 our correspondents, we found such a course impracticable, seeing 

 that they belonged to one or other of the following classes of 

 specialists : — 



a. Those who are chiefly interested in the formation of a 



collection of insects, and who desire a restriction of 

 the space allotted to matters pertaining to the study of 

 Entomology, and an extension of that allotted to field 

 work and exchange. 



b. Those who are chiefly concerned in the biology of insects, 



and do not regard with any favour the accounts of work 

 done by collectors in various districts. 



c. Those who are interested in the insect fauna of Britain 



alone, and cannot appreciate, or even tolerate, papers on 



insects from regions which they consider outside their 



sphere. 



An attempt to satisfy either of these would only have resulted 



in strained relations with the other two ; and, besides, we did 



not deem it desirable to narrow down the scope of the 



' Entomologist ' to the requirements of a class, even if we could 



have supposed that there were many among our readers as 



exclusive as some of our correspondents seemed to be. In 



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