. The American entomologist. Entomology. A m E R{ II C A\ PI m^m. VOL. 2. ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1870. NO. 6. (gnlomokgiral gcpiTrlmenl. R L E .S V . R IL K Y 2SI N. Main St., St. Louis, THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT. Our readers, no doubt, will be a liltle .sur- prised, upon receiving this number, to notice the change in our title, and in the appearance of our cover. Well, we confess that we are fond of giving these little surprises, for which reason we have never even so much as hinted at this change, which we have long since had in view. Now, kind reader, how does the change suit you? You may be
. The American entomologist. Entomology. A m E R{ II C A\ PI m^m. VOL. 2. ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL, 1870. NO. 6. (gnlomokgiral gcpiTrlmenl. R L E .S V . R IL K Y 2SI N. Main St., St. Louis, THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT. Our readers, no doubt, will be a liltle .sur- prised, upon receiving this number, to notice the change in our title, and in the appearance of our cover. Well, we confess that we are fond of giving these little surprises, for which reason we have never even so much as hinted at this change, which we have long since had in view. Now, kind reader, how does the change suit you? You may be sure that it pleases us, or we should not have made it, and we can imagine an almost unanimous expression of pleasure from the fairer portion of our sub- scribers, as well as from the great majority of the sterner sex. The success of the Entomologist in directing attention to the pleai5ure and importance of the study of Insects, especially of those affecting the interests of Agriculture and Horticulture, has been highly gratifying; and though there is often much truth in the trite French aphorism "le mieux est I'ennemi du'bien," yet we should make no true progress in this world, if we adhered to it too strictly. The two sciences of Entomology and Botany go haud-in-hand; they are, indeed, twin-sisters, and we have often thought, and the matter has frequently been suggested by friends, that the usefulness of our Magazine might be increased by broadening and extending its sphere of ope- ration so as to include a department of Botany. To us there is no branch of Natural History so captivating as Entomology, but lives there a field-entomologist who has not, over and over again, admired the varied and beauteous forms of plant-life around him, or who has not been impressed a thousand times with the absolute necessity of some knowledge of Botany to enable him to fully carry out his own studies? We trow not! It would be difiicult to determine which of these two branches of Na
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