ISO THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



work and spraying experiments in the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station of New Jersey under Dr. Headlee, State Entomologist, 

 and returned to England to take up university w.,rk in Manchester 

 and the University College of South Wales. He has pulilished a 

 number of entomological memoirs in various scientific journals 

 and received his doctorate in 1915. His thorough scientific and 

 practical training will make him a \aluable addition tc^ the F'nto- 

 mological Branch of the Dominion 13epartment of Agriculture. 



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Thomas H. Cunningham. 



We regret to announce the death, on February IGth, of Mr. 

 Thomas H. Cunningham, Inspector of Fruit Pests for British 

 Columbia, at the age of 78 years. Mr. Cunningham's health had 

 been poor during the last two years, but he continued his duties 

 in spite of advanced years and diminished vigour with a character- 

 istic tenacity. 



For many years he had served the Board of Horticulture of 

 British Columbia as its Inspector of Fruit Pests with a zeal rarely 

 equalled. It was natural that in the prosecution of his work of 

 inspecting orchards and nurseries, imported nursery stock and 

 fruit, he should fail to please everybody; but to the wholehearted 

 enthusiasm with which he carried out his work is due, to no small 

 degree, the comparative freedom of British Columbia orchards 

 from some of our most serious fruit pests. To name two in par- 

 ticular, the Codling Moth and San Jose Scale, would have been 

 widely distributed b>' this time but for the energetic methods he 

 empkned. The fruit growers of the province owe much to his 

 industry, and his de;tith remo^■es a unique member of the Entomo- 

 logical fraternity of Canada. 



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The Ohio State University has recently inaugurated a plan pro- 

 viding for Research Professors which enables the holders to devote 

 their time especially to research work, and Professor Herbert Osborn 

 has been elected Research Professor in the Department of Zoology 

 and Entomolog>\ He will be relieved from routine, class and 

 department duties, devoting his time to researches, especially in 

 the line of Entomology, but will continue to have direction of 

 research work of Graduate students in his particular field. 



Mailed IMay loth, 1916. 



