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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY Vol.19

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Below the title on the spine of each Annual Review volume is a small decoration, the colophon. On some series this decoration is indicative of the subject matter as, for example, the double helix on the Annual Review of Genetics and the conifer on the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. The Annual Review of En tomology has been content so far with a sort of double brace which the imaginative reader might somehow connect with the tagmosis of insects; for this volume a new colophon, with its roots in the history of entomology (see Annual Reviews History of Entomology, 1973), science, and heraldry, has been devised.

In the center of this symbol is a fleur-de-lis, much used in heraldry, which some say is derived from an iris, some from a head-downwards honey bee. By surrounding this with a hexagon of the honeycomb we decide in favor of the honey bee. The controversy can probably never be settled. Franklin (An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Heraldry, 1970, p. 136) says that the fleur-de-lis has been "erroneously stated to be a conventionalized iris". Ransome (The Sacred Bee, 1937, p. 233) says that its derivation from a honey bee "is not a very probable suggestion". French heads of state have been partial to both bees and lilies. Louis le Jeune, in the twelfth century favored a form of the fleur-de-lis said to represent three flowers of the genus Lilium. Napoleon chose golden bees as his personal emblem on his consecration as emperor, reproduced (head upwards) on the canopy over his throne, their resemblance to fleur-de-lis on the ceiling of the throne room at Fontainebleau is plain. There are forty known versions of the fleur-de-lis, the earliest dating back to Rameses III, perhaps the product of some earlier dark age. But it is the controversy, not its solution, that is of interest to us. In such matters it often happens that both parties are correct: mistakes in copying a head-downwards drawing of a honey bee and a right-way-up drawing of an iris may well have led to a convergent resemblance in the fleur-de-lis.

It is then appropriate for this symbol to make its first appearance on the volume of The Annual Review of Entomology immediately following the publication in 1973 of the special volume on the history of entomology.

The present volume of the Annual Review of Entomology also introduces an improved method of photocomposition and offset printing, together with a more modern flush left format for titles and subheadings.

Our thanks go to the authors for the care and effort they have devoted to the preparation of these reviews. We are also indebted to those who have suggested topics for review, and request the continued help of our readers in selecting topics of current interest.

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581.1(058) ANN a

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Palo Alto (California) : Annual Review Inc.., 1974

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xi, 512 hal.: ill.;23 cm

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English

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581.1(058)

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19

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Entomology

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