Vol. I, No. I.] INSECT LIFE. [July, 1888. 



SALUTATORY. 



Ever since our connection with the Division of Entomology we have 

 greatly felt the need of some speedy and regular means of i^ublicatiou in 

 which might be printed short articles, notes, reports of the i^rogress of 

 investigations, and brief papers on entomological subjects which are 

 either too limited in scope or too disconnected to be used in the annual 

 reports or in the special bulletins of the Division. A vast amount of 

 interesting matter, especially in correspondence, has hitherto been 

 buried in the archives of the Division which has had no medium of di- 

 rect communication with the public, especially that portion which in- 

 cludes the student of entomology and the actual workers in economic 

 entomology. Some of these miscellaneous notes have been published 

 occasionally under the heads of ''Xotes of the Year" and "Extracts 

 from Correspondence" in several of the special bulletins of the Division 

 (viz: Kos. 2, 4, and 12) and in the annual reports for 1879 and 1884. 

 But there is much matter of general interest that is necessarily omitted 

 from any such ijublicatious appearing only at irregular intervals. A 

 periodical bulletin in which matter of timely interest can be given to 

 the public without delay, and especially to the agricultural journals for 

 still wider distribution, has become the more necessary now that active 

 experiment stations have been established under the Hatch bill in most 

 of the States. 



It is not necessary to explain to the public the difficulties which have 

 heretofore been thrown in the way of publishing from the Division such 

 a periodical bulletin as is here proposed. We have in past annual re- 

 ports intimated the great need of something of the sort and believe that 

 Commissioner Colman has instituted no reform during his administra- 

 tion that will be x^roductive of more general good or will give more gen- 

 eral satisfaction, so far as the interests of economic eutoniology are con. 

 cerned. 



We hope to make the periodical interesting and useful to all in any 

 way concerned in entomology, and, without further comments or prom- 



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