JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
JUNE, 1924 
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The Proceedings of the Horticultural Inspectors and those of the 
Apiary Inspectors not having come to hand in a reasonably complete 
form, it has been considered advisable to defer publication of that matter 
to a subsequent number. Several other papers would have been in¬ 
cluded in the present number if authors had supplied abstracts with 
the copy or upon request. Over four months have elapsed since the 
annual meeting and yet not all the copy has been received and some of 
the authors have been too busy to supply the required abstracts. 
The urgency of immediate publication can hardly be sustained in the face 
of the above. Conditions sometimes arise which might lead to the con¬ 
clusion that need of early publication does not develop until the paper is 
written. An editor, not necessarily a scientist, may sometimes arrive at 
the conclusion that years are to be devoted to leisurely preparation of a 
manuscript and only a few days allotted to its passing through the press. 
It is true that investigation may and should consume ample time for the 
reaching of trustworthy conclusions. There are cases, however, where 
the “rush” to get into print does not harmonize with the period of com¬ 
pilation. A real contribution to knowledge rarely suffers much from 
delayed publication, despite the general application of the law of priority. 
ARTHUR LESTER LOVETT 
Arthur Lester Lovett was born at Neal, Kansas, on August 25, 
1885. He died April 25, 1924, at Corvallis, Oregon, from septicemia 
poisoning. He graduated from the Oklahoma Agricultural and Me- 
