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Transfers U. S. Bureau of Entomology; W. R. Smith and R. C. Gaines, Federal 

 Horticultural Board to boll weevil force, Tallulah, La. 



Mr. H. H. Thomas has been appointed temporary junior assistant, Division of 

 Forest Insects, Entomologicial Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. C. O. Eddj-, a graduate of the Ohio State University, has been appointed 

 instructor in Zoology and Entomology, North Carolina State College. 



Mr. Eric Hearle of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agri- 

 culture, who is engaged in mosquito work, was married, April 9, to Miss I. B. Webb, of 

 Hatzic, B. C. 



Dr. Philip Garman of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station was 

 operated upon for appendicitis at Grace Hospital, New Haven, Conn., on May 15. 

 At last accounts he was getting along nicely. 



Mr. J. E. Eckert, Ohio State University 1916 and 1917, has been appointed Assist- 

 ant Professor of Zoology and Entomology, North Carolina State College and will 

 devote most of his time to apiculture. 



Dr. W. D. Hunter and Mr. B. R. Coad of the Bureau of Entomology spent the 

 greater part of April in the Laguna district of Mexico, in connection with the pink 

 bollworm problem. 



Prof. Z. P. Metcalf of the North Carolina State College and Experiment Station 

 will have charge of the coiu-ses in elementary and advanced entomology at the 

 University of Michigan Biological Laboratory, Douglas Lake, this summer. 



Dr. A. W. Morrill, Consulting Entomologist, of Los Angeles, Calif., spent a month 

 on the west coast of Mexico during the past spring investigating pests of cotton 

 and miscellaneous crops for several of his clients. He is now planning to locate 

 an assistant in vSinaloa under contract for continuing certain investigations and for 

 acting in an advisory capacity to American and Mexican land owning corporations 

 and growers organizations. 



Dr. H. B. Hungerford of the University of Kansas will spend the summer at the 

 University of Minnesota where he will be a member of the Entomological staff. 

 He will give a summer school course in Economic Entomolog>^ and will continue 

 his studies upon Aquatic Hemiptera. 



Dr. W.E.Hinds of Alabama was elected Chairman, and Professor A.F.Conradi, 

 of South Carolina, Secretary, of the Association of Cotton States Entomologists, 

 at the 22nd annual Convention of Southern Agricultural Workers, held at Lexington, 

 Ky., February 15-17, 1921. 



Dr. J. F. lUingworth, who, for the past four years, has been under engagement 

 with the Queensland Government, investigating pests of sugar cane, is returning 

 with his family to theii home in Hawaii. For the present his address will be 

 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, T. H. 



According to Gleanings in Bee Culture the course in bee keeping at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, which was suspended several years ago on the resignation 

 of Dr. Burton N. Gates, is to be reinstated under Mr. Norman E. Phillips a brother 

 of Dr. E. F. Phillips of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. Dwight Isely, Scientific Assistant in the United States Bureau of Entomology, 

 has resigned and has accepted the position of Associate Professor in the Department 

 of Entomology', University of Arkansas, and Associate Entomologist in the Experi- 

 ment Station. He will devote most of his time to research work. 



Dr. C. L. Metcalf, for the past seven years Professor of Entomology in Ohio State 

 University, has resigned to accept the position of Professor of Entomology and Head 

 of the Department of Entomology in the University of Illinois. He should be ad- 

 dressed in care of the University at Urbana, Illinois, after September first. 



