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Letters are mostly addressed to P.P. Calvert, as editor, and refer to various aspects of editorial business. Manuscripts are offered for publication, reviews and criticisms made of papers which have appeared in the "Entomological News," discussion of deposition of the type specimens described in the journal and of the matter of exchange fo specimens and reprints.

Archived from the Society's holdings, March 13, 1959

Scope and Contents While fundamentally a banker and businessman, Martindale was an accomplished naturalist, with interests largely in the fields of botany and entomology. Once treasurer and councilman of the Academy, vice-president of the American Entomological Society and Corresponding secretary of the Botanical section; also a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. His collection of insects was purchased by the Academy. His botanical collection is a prized possession of the...