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Mr. C. E. Smith, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, stationed at Baton Rouge and co-operating with the University, is carrying 

 on research work with truck crop insects. 



In a course of lectures given at El Paso, Texas, under the auspices of the South- 

 western Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 

 subject for March 1 was "Alien Insect Enemies," by Benjamin Druckermaur, 



According to Science, Mr. Lloyd R. Watson, assistant in apiculture, U. S. Bureau 

 of Entomology, has resigned to accept the position of apiculturist in the Division 

 of Entomology of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station vice H. B. Parks, 

 resigned. 



Recent appointments in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced as 

 follows: D. B. Mackie, Cal. Dept. Agr., collaborator; Elmer Johnson, temporarily 

 transferred from Bureau of Public Roads; C. F. Doncette, Mass. Agr. Coll., Doyles- 

 town, Pa. 



According to Experiment Station Record, Professor J. G. Griffith, head of the depart- 

 ment of biology at the New Mexico College, and Station entomologist, resigned 

 August 20, 1920, to accept a position in the Pasadena, Cal., High School, and was 

 succeeded by Doctor Robert Middlebrook. 



Doctor E. M. Walker, University of Toronto, for eleven years editor of Canadian 

 Entomologist, retired as editor January 1st, 1921, and is succeeded by Doctor J. 

 McDunnough, Entomological Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, 

 to whom manuscripts for publication should be sent. 



The Maine State Beekeepers' Association was organized at Auburn, Me., on 

 February 15. L. W. Longfellow, Hallowell, was elected president, and F. L. Mason, 

 Mechanic Falls, secretary. The first annual meeting was held March 30, at Orono, 

 Doctor E. F. Phillips was scheduled as one of the speakers. 



Mr. W. E. Anderson, State Entomologist, is employed by the Department of 

 Agriculture and Immigration of the State of Louisiana and has immediate charge of 

 all the State's regulatory work relating to nursery stock, the pink bollworm, citrus 

 canker, and other insects and diseases attacking cultivated crops. 



The following appointments have been announced in the Entomological Branch, 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture: E. P. Donat, Inspector, brown-tail moth 

 work, Nova Scotia; Gilbert Garlick, teinporary junior entomologist, Vineland, Ont.; 

 Doctor F. C. Craighead, Division of Forest Insects, Ottawa; Miss Agnes Healy, 

 temporary clerk stenographer, Vernon, B. C. 



The following transfers in the Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 

 Perez Simmons, Alhambra, Cal., to Washington, D. C; George H. Bradley, Mound, 

 La., temporarily to Federal Horticultural Board; A. J. Ackerman, Bentonville, 

 Ark., to California; C. H. Alden, Wallingford, Conn., to Fort Valley, Ga.; M. T. 

 Young and Robert L. Saul, temporarily to the Federal Horticultural Board. 



Mr. George N. Wolcott, formerly of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Bureau 

 of Plant Industry studying the possible relation of insects to the transmission of 

 mosaic disease of sugar-cane, and more recently entomologist of the Estacion Agro- 

 nomica, Haina, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana, has severed all connection 

 with the latter instutition and is now entomologist at the Insular Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Rio Piedras, Porto Rico. His address is Box 1281, San Juan, Porto Rico. 



