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effects alone are manifested, thereby inspiration is interrupted, and 
an expiration, a collapse of the lungs, follows. But since, with the 
cessation of pulmonary expansion, the given stimulus disappears, and 
the after-effect of the inhibiting fibres is of but short duration, the 
latent inspiratory impulses prevail, owing to their long after-effect, and 
cause an inspiration. This again establishes an expansion of the 
lung, and thereby an expiration, etc." —L. G. 
ENTOMOLOGY.! 
An Outlet for Memoirs, Monographs, and Faunal Lists.'— 
As a rule the opportunities for publication of the experiment station ento- 
mologists are limited to station bulletins, and entomological or general 
natural history journals. The former, with rare exceptions, are only 
available for the publication of investigations having an immediate 
practical import, and the latter can only be satisfactorily used for articles 
of moderate length. It is true that to a certain extent monographs and 
revisions can be published in the Transactions of the American Ento- 
mological Society and the publications of the National Museum, but 
these channels are not open to all, and as a rule are reserved for mono- 
graphic works relating to our fauna as a whole, rather than that of any 
particular locality. 
If the biological work of the experiment stations is established on a 
broad and comprehensive basis many results will be obtained that are 
not of immediate interest to the farming community, and which could 
not be published, except in a fragmentary way, in the existing journals. 
Among such results the following general classes may be mentioned : 
(1) Bibliographical matter, including bibliographies of the insects 
affecting certain plants, bibliographies of certain groups, faunal biblio- 
graphies, etc. 
(2) Catalogues, descriptive and annotated, of the organisms of a 
locality, county, or state. 
(3) Memoirs on the biology of certain groups, the insects relating 
to certain plants, or the relations of various organisms or groups of 
organisms to each other and to their environment. 
1 Edited by Dr. C. M. Weed, Experiment Station, Columbus, O. 
? Prepared for Entomological Section, American Association of Agricultural Colleges 
and Experiment Stations, November, 1890. 
