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Psyche 
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a fossil insect, and has passed thru so many inexperienced 
hands that all its brightness and freshness had gone! Let 
us therefore hope that the geologist, the paleobotanist, and 
other paleontologists, will be on the alert for fossil insects, 
and that once having found them, will place them in the 
hands of one who can give the fossils the necessary atten- 
tion. Perhaps this is too much to expect in these days, when 
the vision of the average geologist is so obscured by petro- 
leum; but by this means alone will we ever locate a Devo- 
nian or Mississippian winged insect, — a find which would 
contribute more to our knowledge of the origin of the class 
Insecta than any other single discovery. 
