hunter: department of entomology. 9 



Professoi' Glenn called upon by the state entomologist of Minne- 

 sota to conduct entended investigations on the grasshopper in Minne- 

 sota. 



H. B. Hungerford appointed instructor in entomology. 

 Departments of entomology and botany published for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture a comprehensive bulletin dealing 

 with the diseases of the chinch bug, Professors Billings and Glenn 

 authors. 



At the request of the State Board of Health, the department 

 undertook a serious investigation of the relations existing between 

 the newly introduced disease of pellagra and the sand fly. 



H. W. Lohrenz appointed Griesa research fellow in entomology. 

 1912. — Head of department gives an address before the annual meeting 

 of the American Association of Nursei-ymen at St. Louis. 



Results thus far of work of sand fly and pellagi-a published in the 

 Journal of the American Association Medicine, Chicago. 



R. Eraser, Toronto, Canada, appointed to research fellowship in 

 entomology. 



Head of department appointed one of a committee of five, repre- 

 senting all parts of the United States, to cooperate in drafting and- 

 aiding the passage of a federal law protecting this country against 

 further introduction of injurious insects and plant diseases from 

 foreign countries. The plans formulated by all interests concerned 

 were accepted, and incorporated in the law, which became effective 

 August 20 of this year. 



Head of department represented Kansas at the third triennial 

 conference of the National Association for the Study of Pellagra. 



Supreme court handed down a decision, all judges concurring, 

 establishing the constitutionality of the law under which the economic 

 work of this department is carried on. 



Hungerford and Williams published a paper on "Some Kansas 

 parasitic bees." 



In response to a request from the governor of the state, the chan- 

 cellor appointed the head of the department as chairman of a com- 

 mittee to investigate the horse plague then present in western Kansas. 

 1913. — Orrel M. Andrews, of Fairmount College, appointed research fel- 

 low in entomology. 



Dwight Isely, who has just received his master's degree in this 

 department, appointed to Schuyler fellowship in entomology, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, New York. 



Mr. H. B. Hungerford made assistant professor of entomology. 



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