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S. E. I'rescott. of tlio Massafluisetts Institute of Teehnolofiy, reported on ;i 

 study of types of bacteria found in ferniouted milk products prepared for 

 therapeutic use. E. G. Hastings and B. W. Hammer, of the Wisconsin Station, 

 believed that organisms closely resembling Bacillus hulgarkuH are constantly 

 found in milk, butter, and cheese, and they ascribed the therapeutic value of the 

 fermented drinks to their chemical composition rather than to the presence of 

 the peculiar organisms. Dr. Carrington, of Turkey, believed the value of 

 yoghourt or matzoon to be due to flushing the intestines, as the beverage is 

 used in that country for all diseases, and p;itients are urged to drink as much 

 of it as possible. 



C. E. Marshall described a cremating furnace for laboratories that had been 

 successfully used at the Michigan College. Dr. Hastings reported the keeping of 

 anthrax spores for 8 years in raw pond water. P. R. Hadley, of the Rhode 

 Island Station, gave the results of studies of white diarrhea in chicks. L. F. 

 Rettger, of Yale University, described a new si)ecies of bacterium which is 

 pathogenic in poultry. 



Association of Economic Entomologists. — At the twenty-first annual meeting 

 of this association, S. A. Forbes, in his presidential address, on the prospects 

 of progi*ess in Economic Entomology, contrasted the status and conditions ex- 

 isting at the time he was pi'esident of the association 15 years ago with those 

 of to-day. A redraft of the constitution was adopted and the name of the asso- 

 ciation altered to American A.ssociatiou of Economic Entomologists. A large 

 number of common names of insects taken from a list submitted by the. com- 

 mittee on nomenclature were accepted. The committee on testing proprietary 

 insecticides reported on the status of the proposed National insecticide law. 

 Resolutions were adopted regarding the deaths of Drs. James Fletcher and 

 W. H. Ashmead, and Profs. F. H. Snow. Alexander Craw, and W. G. Johnson, 

 all of whom were members of the association. 



Papers were presented by R. I. Smith, of the North Carolina Station, Edith 

 M. Patch, of the Maine Station, F. L. Washburn and II. J. Franklin, of the Min- 

 nesota Station, R; A. Cooley, of the Montana Station, E. D. Sanderson, of the 

 New Hampshire Station, P. J. Parrott, of the New York State Station, H. E. 

 Summers and R. L. Webster, of the Iowa Station, T. B. Symons, of the Mary- 

 land Station, E. S. G. Titus, of the T^tah Station, W. E, Hinds, of the Alabama 

 Station, B. P. Taylor, of the Missouri Fruit Station, A. L. Quaintance, F. M. 

 Webster, A. D. Hopkins, J. G. Sanders, C E. Hood, and B. N. Gates, of the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology of this Department, and by State entomologists E. P. Felt, 

 of New York, Franklin Sherman, Jr., of North Carolina, and E. L. Worsham, 

 of Georgia. In these the results of biological studies were given of Murgantia 

 liistrionica, Pemphigus tcsscUata, cranberry pests, and soft scales, and in papers 

 taking up more particularly the economic side were considered house-flies, 

 forest insects, Empoasca mali, Lygus pratensis, codling moth, ti-ee crickets, San 

 Jose scale, Conotrachclus ncniipliar, and an alfalfa leaf weevil. Papers were 

 also presented on methods for securing apicultural statistics, on photomicro- 

 graphy and insect photography, plans for parasite breeding cages, determining 

 the effect of hydrocyanic-acid and carbon-bisulphid gases upon plant and insect 

 life, and on the importance of proper methods of entomological investigations. 

 A discussion of the question Do We Need the Insectary? was entered into by 

 a large number, most of whom considered such equipment a necessity. One of 

 the important developments of the meeting was brought out by E. S. G. Titus, 

 in relation to an imported alfalfa leaf weevil that is becoming a source of 

 great injury to that crop in Utah. This ]iest is supposed to have been inti'o- 

 duced into this country from Europe. 



