February, '21] current notes 147 



cultural entomology, and parasitology, in relation to animal industries, in charge 

 respectively, of E. C. Van Dyke, E. O. Essig, and S. B. Freeborn. 



Mr. Frank Pellett of Hamilton, Illinois, and Professor H. F. Wilson of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, spent a week from August 30th to September 4th, 1920, in Missis- 

 sippi, where they addressed enthusiastic meetings of beekeepers at Greenville, on 

 August 31st, Agricultural College on September 2d, and Gulfport on September 4th. 

 They were investigating beekeeping conditions in Mississippi. These meetings 

 had been arranged by Specialists in Bee Culture, R. B. Wilson, and Entomologist, 

 R. W. Harned. 



On September 7th and 8th, a collecting and scouting party spent two days collect- 

 ing on Cat Island off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. The party included T. S. Van 

 AUer and W. C. Dukes of Mobile, Alabama, Doctor L. E. Miles, H. H. Kimball, H. L. 

 Dozier, F. H. Benjamin, R. P. Barnhart, and R. W. Harned of the Entomological 

 and Plant Board Staff in Mississippi, and J. E. Graf of the U. S. Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy. 



Extensive Argentine Ant control compaigns have been put on at the following 

 towns in Mississippi: Woodville, Crystal Springs, Durant, Starkville, and Laurel. 

 This work is done in co-operation with the State Plant Board and the town authori- 

 ties. Most of the work has been done under the direct supervision of Mr. E. R. 

 Barber, of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, assisted by Mr. Luther Brown, formerly 

 of the State Plant Board of Florida, but now employed in Mississippi. 



Mr. A. W. Morrill, formerly Arizona State Entomologist, has been located in Los 

 Angeles, Cal., during the past year where he is managing entomologist of the South- 

 western Alfalfa and Cotton Protective Service, a co-operative association of about 

 twenty growers associations, extensive land owners, and business concerns having 

 important interests in protection against alfalfa and cotton pests in the southwest, 

 particularly against the alfalfa weevil, cotton boll weevil, Thurberia or wild cotton 

 boll weevil and the pink boUworm. 



Appointments to the Bureau of Entomology are announced as follows: W. A. 

 Baker, Scientific Assistant, San Antonio, Tex.; R. C. Shannon, temporarily. Cereal 

 and Forage Crop Investigations; James Zetek (part time) Panama project; R. E. 

 Nolen, Camphor thrips, Satsuma, Fla.; Robert P. Colmer, James M. Langston, 

 George F. Riley, J. B. Swift, Clifford G. Wallace, Joseph G. Hester, Jackson V. 

 Vernon, George B. Ray, George L. Lott and Malcolm H. Mabry, all collaborators, 

 Truck Crop Insect Investigations, under the direction of Professor R. W. Harned, 

 Agricultural College, Mississippi. 



The last legislature appropriated a total of $240,500 for the support of the State 

 Plant Board of Mississippi. Among the chief activities of the Plant Board at this 

 time are the following: scouting for the pink boUworm of cotton, Mexican bean 

 beetle, sweet potato weevil, Oriental fruit moth, alfalfa weevil, and citrus canker; 

 eradication of sweet potato weevil; eradication of citrus canker; Argentine Ant 

 control; nursery inspection service; sweet potato inspection service; cottony 

 cushion scale control; port inspection; enforcing quarantines against various pests, 

 especially the pink boUworm of cotton. 



Announcement has been made of the following transfers in the Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy: Julian J. Culver, Fort Valley, Ga., to Vienna, Va. ; E. R. Skellregg, Dover, 

 Del., to Fort Valley, Ga.; J. W. Jones, Arlington, Mass., to Cariisle, Pa.; D. W. 

 Jones, gipsy moth work, Melrose Highlands, Mass.; to corn borer work, Arlington, 



