Excerpt from The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 4

A Happy New Year to you, kindly reader may the days of this year roll joyously along for you wherever you may be, whether your lot is cast in our peaceful Canadian land, or in the sea-girt isles Of the Old home, whether in the midst Of the matured Republic Of our cousins across the lakes, or in the latest democracy Of [a [ml/e France, whether on the shores Of the stormy Atlantic, or on the borders Of the broad Pacific, whatever your nationality, whatever your position in life, we look upon you as one of our brotherhood Of Entomologists, and we include you amongst our friends.

For the fourth time we are commencing a new volume. And we do so with feelings Of more than ordinary satisfaction, Inasmuch as we have at length fulfilled all our promises by the punctual completion Of the pre ceding volume within the appointed year. The third volume we com menced with the issue Of its first number in April last, and the second in June when we began the preparation Of the third in the following month, our task seemed hopeless as regarded the performance Of it before the close Of the year. However, by the regular issue of double numbers, we were enabled to complete the volume Of two hundred and forty pages, with its forty illustrations, by the end Of is7 I, and now we start fair with the new year, and hope to be regular and punctual throughout it. While we thus congratulate ourselves upon our satisfactory position, we must by no means omit to mention - it would be ungrateful in us indeed to do 50 how much we are indebted to others, and how highly we esteem the kind assistance that' has been SO freely afforded us. Especially we would Offer our thanks to those friends outside Of our own country whose contribu tions have added so, much to the value of our pages. May we beg that they will lay us under still further obligations by the continuance Of their favours during the coming year, and that others also will not hesitate to follow their example?

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