Heprinted from Bulletin 40, Division of Entomology, TJ. S. Department of Agrienltnre. 



THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



By E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y. 



Publication is undoubtedly our most important function, and while 

 discussions of methods and lines of research may modify the matter 

 made public, it seems to the speaker that a consideration of the form 

 and method of publication may not be without value. This subject, 

 it is true, has been mentioned more or less by my predecessors, and 



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