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Excerpt from A List of the Beetles of San Diego County, California The publication difficulties which have lately beset all educational and scientific institutions are mani fest. Coincident-with reduced publication allowances and increased printing costs there has been a growth in research activity. The manuscripts submitted have far exceeded the printing budgets, necessitating the rejection or indefinite postponement of much worthwhile material. The result has been a loss to science and discouragement to the individual performing the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.