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legislation for the year consists of C. D, Woods and L. H. Pammel. The com- 

 mittee on methods and apparatus was discontinued and the following referees 

 were appointed to take its place: C. D. Woods, on methods of sampling, E. 

 Brown, on methods of testing for germination, and H. Garman, on methods of 

 testing for purity. 



Association of Feed Control Officials. — The second annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Feed Control Officials of the United States was held in Washington, 

 D. C, November 14-16, 1910. 



The address of the president of the association, B. L. Purcell of Virginia, 

 dwelt on the importance of the organization as a means of uniting the varied 

 interests for enacting and enforcing uniform and just laws relating to the man- 

 ufacture and sale of feeding stuffs. Other addresses were made by H. W. 

 Wiley, of this Department, on the Importance of Making Feed out of Sound 

 Material ; C. D. Woods, Director of the Maine Station, on the Cooperation 

 between Feed Dealer and Executive of the Law; and R. W. Chapin of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., on The Manufacturers' Position and Needs. 



The principal business of the meeting was the adoption of a draft of a uni- 

 form state feeding stuff law recommended by the executive committee after a 

 discussion by feeders, feed manufacturers, representatives of trade associations, 

 and feed inspection officials. A list of definitions of terms used to describe by- 

 products used as feeding stuffs for live stock was also discussed and adopted. 



The officers elected for the coming year wex-e L. F. Brown, Albany, N. Y., 

 president; W. F. Hand, Agricultural College, Mississippi, vice-president; J. D. 

 Turner, Lexington, Ky., secreta ry-trea surer ; and the president, secretary- 

 treasurer, C. D. Woods, Orono, Me., J. K. Haywood of this Department, and 

 W. J. Jones, jr., Lafayette, Ind., executive committee. 



The First International Congress of Entomology. — The First International 

 Congress of Entomology, which was held at Brussels during the summer, 

 opened with an attendance of 292 entomologists. Prof. Lameere, president of 

 the Entomological Society of Belgium, presided over the congress. 



The subjects presented which relate to economic entomology include the fol- 

 lowing: The Invasions of Grasshopix>rs, their Destruction by Natural Causes 

 and by Man, by M. J. Kiinchel d'Herculais ; Artificial Distribution of Insect 

 Pests and The Distribution of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, by F. V. Theobald; 

 Notes on Lepidoptera Attacking Cotton and Methods for their Destruction, by 

 A. Andres; GaleruceUa liueola, Coleopter, its Life History and Habits with 

 Notes on Preventive and Remedial Researches, by R. MacDougall ; The Disinfec- 

 tion of Imported Seeds of Plants and the Use of Insecticides, including a graphic 

 account of the progress of economic entomology in the West Indies and in 

 India, by D. Morris; Conference on Medical Entomology, by R. Blanchard; 

 Ants and their Guests, by E. Wasmanu ; The Destruction of Insects Injurious 

 to Cultivated Plants, by V. Vermorel ; Economical Questions in Bengal, by 

 J. M. Howlett ; Insects which Transmit Diseases, by A. Renard ; Notes on the 

 CEstridaj, including an account of experiments to elucidate the life history of 

 Hypoderma bovis and the economic value of preventive treatment and observa- 

 tions on the warble fly of the reindeer (CEdemagcna tarandi), by G. H. Car- 

 penter; Cuticolous Diptera of the Bovid;e in the Congo, by L. Gedoelst ; and 

 Preliminary Notes and Information on Sphenoptcra Uneata and the Larva of a 

 Lepidopter which Attack Hedysarum coronarium of Tunis and Sicily, by F. S. 

 Perez. 



The History of Entomology in Spain was presented by R. Garcia y Mereet, 

 and The Dependence of the Fauna on the Soil (Influence of the Soil Constitu- 

 tion on Biogenetics and Geographic Distribution of Insects), by K. Holdhnus, 

 Among those' contributing to the sectional program were W. J. Holland of 



