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DINNER IN HONOR of MR. D. K. MCMILLAN. The departure from 

 Brownsville, Texas, of Mr. D. K. McMillan, Bureau of Entomology, 

 was the occasion of a farewell dinner given in his honor by other 

 entomologists stationed there. Matamoros, Mexico, just across the 

 river from Brownsville, was the scene df the entertainment, which was 

 held on the night of March 8, 1911. The dinner was given in the 

 French restaurant, and was followed by a theatre and "Boliche" party. 

 Mr. McMillan was engaged in truck crop insect investigations in the 

 Brownsville country. He will go North to take a position in Illinois 

 under Dr. Forbes, and will investigate insects injurious to vegetables 

 in the vicinity of Chicago. Besides the guest of honor, the following 

 were present: Mr. R. A. Vickery, of the Cereal and Forage Crop 

 Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology ; Mr. M. M. High, of the 

 Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect Investigations, Bureau of En- 

 tomology, and Mr. T. E. Holloway, at present on furlough from the 

 Bureau and engaged in parasite investigations for the Deli Experiment 

 Station, of Sumatra. 



THE MERSHON EXPEDITION TO THE CHARITY ISLANDS, LAKE HURON. 

 For several years the University of Michigan Museum and the Mich- 

 igan Geological and Biological Survey have been co-operating in a 

 biological survey of the State. The survey has had a small annual 

 appropriation for this work, and has deposited the collections in the 

 museum, but the expeditions sent out from the latter have nearly all 

 been made possible by gifts from persons interested in the progress 

 of the work or in the institution. 



In the summer of 1910, Hon. W. B. Mershon, Saginaw, Mich., placed 

 in the hands of the chief field naturalist of the survey, who is also the 

 head curator of the museum, a sum sufficient to send a small party to 

 the Charity Islands in Saginaw Bay, for the purpose of investigating 

 the fauna and flora. 



The men engaged to do the work and the groups to which they de- 

 voted most of their time were as follows: W. W. Newcomb (butter- 

 flies and moths), N. A. Wood (vertebrates), A. W. Andrews (beetles). 

 Frederick Gaige (ants), C. K. Dodge (plants). The museum and 

 survey are greatly indebted to these men, for they did the field work 

 without other remuneration than their expenses, and are now preparing 

 their results for publication. 



The results of the expedition will be published in various journals 

 and in the annual reports of the Michigan Academy of Science under 

 the common title "Results of the Mershon Expedition to the Charitv 

 Islands, Lake Huron." As most of the field work was done in the late 

 summer and fall, the survey plans to continue the work in the spring 

 and early summer of 1911. ALEXANDER G. RUTHVEN, University of 

 Michigan Museum (in Science). 



