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(4) Monographic works. 
It seems to me that there isa decided need of an outlet for these 
classes of results, and I have heard others among us express a similar 
sentiment, On this account I venture to bring the matter before you, 
in the hope that it will be fully discussed, and, if it seems desirable, 
some plan of action decided upon, 
I anticipate that one of the first objections that will be raised is 
that it is difficult for existing entomological journals to find matter 
with which to fill their pages. If this is true, and to a certain extent 
no doubt it is, it ought not to be much longer, for when the entomol- 
ogists of the stations get well established they should turn out an 
amount of work that will more than fill these journals with the short 
contributions for which they are especially fitted. But the suggested 
publication is not intended for this kind of matter, and ought to in- 
crease rather than decrease the number of contributions to existing 
journals, 
It seems as though some coöperative plan might be carried out by 
which the opportunities for publication of the results of biological 
investigation would be greatly increased,—a fact which would also 
greatly stimulate the prosecution of such investigations. 
Among the points that to my mind appear to be desirable to keep 
in view in carrying out such a project are the following : 
(1) ‘To exclude short papers that can easily go in existing journals. 
2) To make little or no attempt at reviews, notices of current 
events, editorial remarks, etc., reserving the pages entirely for con- 
tribute i 
(3) To place the management in the hands of an editoral com- 
mittee, by whom the acceptance or refusal of articles submitted for 
publication should be decided. 
(4) To include papers in other departments of zoology, rather than 
to make it exclusively entomological. 
(5) To issue it only as material accumulates, and, for the present 
at least, not oftener than quarterly. —CLaRENcE M. WEED. 
The Apple Maggot.—Professor F. L. Harvey, of the Maine 
State College, has lately published an elaborate article containing the 
results of investigations made during 1888-89 upon the Apple Mag- 
got (Trypeta pomonella Walsh). It consists, as the title-page states, 
of **a consideration of the literature, history, transformations, 
life-history, and habits of this insect, also remedies;'"' and forms 
by far the best account of the species that has been published. 
