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dent; J. K. Isabel, vice-president; J. R. Hunter, secretary, and K. E. Bragdon, 

 treasurer. 



According to Cleanings in Bee Culture, Mr. H. B. Parks resigned as State Apiarist 

 of Texas on November 1, to take up his new work in the sales promotion and exten- 

 sion department of the Texas Honey Producers Association. 



Resignations from the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agri- 

 culture, are announced as follows: G. M. McFarlane, Saskatoon Laboratory; 

 E. P. Donat, Annapolis Laboratory; G. H. Hammond, Division of Field Crop and 

 Garden Insects; Miss M. M. Nash, stenographer, headquarters. 



The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 

 Joseph N. Crister and J. C. WooUey, Southern field crop investigations; George S. 

 Demuth and E. Watkins, Apicultural Investigations; C. A. Bennett, Tropical and 

 Subtropical Fruit Insect Investigations. 



It has been announced that the Ohio State University gave a short course for 

 beekeepers January 31 to February 5. Doctor E. F. Phillips of Washington, D. C, 

 was in charge. Mr. George S. Demuth was also one of the speakers. 



Mr. W. R. Thompson of the Bureau of Entomology who is now in southern Europe 

 collecting insect parasites of the European com borer, reports encouraging progress. 

 Several hundred Hymenopterous parasites have already been shipped to Boston and 

 arrived in excellent condition. 



Professor J. G. Sanders, Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania 

 Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., is the official entomologist of a scientific 

 expedition sent by the Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pa., to Panama. He plans to 

 spend two months in the field. 



The Chancellor's 28th biennial report of the University of Kansas shows the growth 

 of the entomological department of that institution. In 1915-16 there were three 

 instructors and 153 students; at present there are 337 students, though the number 

 of instructors remains the same. In the same period the number of student hours 

 has increased from 475 to 1405, an increase of 196 per cent. 



Mr. R. N. Lobdell, Associate Professor of Zoology and Entomology at the Missis- 

 sippi A. & M. College, addressed, by invitation, the Southern Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion at Charleston, South Carolina, on August 19, 1920, and the Tennessee Florists' 

 Association at Memphis, Tennessee, on November 17, 1920. 



Mr. F. H. Benjamin, Assistant Entomologist for the State Plant Board of Missis- 

 sippi, has returned to Ithaca, New York, to continue his studies in the Graduate vSchool 

 of Cornell University, and is planning to return to Mississippi in February. He is 

 devoting his entire time to Lepidoptera. 



Mr. H. A. Scullen, formerly special field agent in beekeeping extension work for 

 the State of Washington, has recently been appointed in charge of bee culture work 

 at the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon, and will have charge of the 

 class work as well as extension work in Oregon. 



Mr. J. L. King of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry has been appointed 

 specialist in insect parasites in the Federal Bureau of Entomology and has been sent 

 to Japan to assist Mr. C. P. Clausen in collecting and rearing parasites of the Japanese 

 beetle for introduction into New Jersey. 



