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Mr. A. C. Burrill, special field agent of the Bureau of Entomology, who has been 

 engaged in North Dakota, where for three years he has conducted the most exten- 

 sive grasshopper campaign that this country has ever seen, has resigned to accept 

 the position of Extension Entomologist at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 



Mr. H. W. Allen, formerly with the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, came to Missis- 

 sippi last June to accept a position as Assistant Entomologist with the State Plant 

 Board. He has recently been transferred to the Entomology Department of the 

 Mississippi A. & M. College, and is now devoting the greater part of his time to teach- 

 ing. 



A report of the proceedings of the meeting of the Association of Cotton States 

 Entomologi.sts held at Vicksburg, Miss., and Tallulah, La., March 1-3, 1920 (see 

 this Journal, Vol. 13, pages 256, April 1920) has been prepared in mimeograph 

 form, and may be obtained by sending one dollar ($1.00) to A. F. Conradi, Secretary, 

 Clemson College, S. C. 



Mr. Oliver I. Snapp, for the past three years representing the Division of Decidu- 

 ous Fruit Insects of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology in extension and investigation 

 work in Mississippi with headquarters at Agricultural College, Mississippi, has been 

 transferred to Fort Valley, Georgia, where he is in charge of the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy Laboratory, His work will be almost entirely on peach insects. 



Mr. P. H. Rolfs has severed his connection as director of the extension work in 

 Florida on the 31st of December. After the first of January 1921 his address will be 

 Bello Horizonte, Estado Minas Geraes, Brazil, where he is commissioned to locate, 

 establish and conduct an agricultural institution of research and instruction. The 

 President of Minas Geraes desires that the heads of departments shall be American 

 scientists. 



Mr. L. S. McLaine of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agri- 

 culture, spent two weeks in October in company with Mr. H. L. Mclntyre of the Fed- 

 eral Bureau of Entomology, in northern New Hampshire, Vermont and the Maritime 

 Provinces, examining the territory liable to soon become infested with the gipsy 

 moth which is now in Maine and New Hampshire, only about twenty-five miles from 

 the Canadian border. 



A second conference in regard to the Mexican Bean Beetle was held at Birmingham, 

 Alabama, on October 19, 1920. Among those in attendance were Doctor C. L. 

 Marlatt, Chairman, and Doctor K. F. Kellerman of the Federal Horticultural Board; 

 Professor Wilmon Newell of Florida; A. C. Lewis of Georgia; R. W. Harned of 

 Mississippi; C. H. Popenoe and J. E. Graf of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



The annual meetings of the Ontario Entomological Society were held at Guelph 

 November 17 and 18, with Mr. Arthur Gibson, President, in the chair. The follow- 

 ing entomologists were present from the United States: Doctor E. P. Felt, State 

 Entomologist, Albany, N. Y.; Professor C. R. Crosby, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y.; Mr. W. R. Walton, Washington, D. C, and Mr. L. H. Worthley, Boston, 

 Mass., of the Federal Bureau of Entomology. 



According to the Experiment Station Record, the division of entomology of the 

 University of California has been reorganized as the division of entomology and para- 

 sitology. Professor W. B. Herms has been appointed head of the division, continuing 

 his activities in parasitology, practical medical entomology, and ecology. The 

 division is made up of three groups, viz. general entomology and taxonomy, agri- 



