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Dr. Clarence H. Kennedy instructor in Entomology at the Ohio State University 

 will remain for the present at that institution. In the April issue of this journal it 

 was announced that he had been appointed instructor in Entomology at the Univer- 

 sity of Tennessee. This was an error and it is not known how the report originated. 



The State Plant Board of Mississippi is issuing a quarterly bulletin modeled on 

 much the same lines as that of the State Plant Board of Florida and the monthly 

 bulletin of the California State Department of Agriculture. It is a welcome addition 

 to entomological literatiu-e and is destined to fill an important place in the economic 

 work of the country. The first number is dated April, 1921. 



Dr. E. D. Ball has resigned as Professor of Zoology and Entomology at the Iowa 

 Agricultural College and State Entomologist of Iowa, and as Assistant Secretary of 

 Agriculture, to accept the permanent position of Director of Scientific work in the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture. He began his new duties October 1, 1921. 



Mr. L. H. Worthley of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, in charge of field experi- 

 ments in controlling the Eiiropean corn borer, Mr. J. G. Sanders, Director of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Harrisburg, Pa., and Mr. E. C. Cotton, Director of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Columbus, Ohio, visited the region infested by the Euro- 

 pean corn borer in Ontario during August. 



Two short courses in beekeeping will be conducted in Colorado, by the College of 

 Agriculture in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture. The 

 first will be held at Fort Collins during the week of November 21, and the other at 

 Grand Junction the following week. The instructors are Dr. E. F. Phillips, Geo. S. 

 Demuth, Kenneth Hawkins, Wesley Foster and Frank Rauchfuss. 



Announcement has been made of two short courses in beekeeping by the College of 

 Agriculture, University of California, in co-operation with the United States Depart- 

 ment- of Agriculture. One will be held at some point in southern California during 

 the week beginning December 5, and the other at Berkele}^ the following week. Dr. 

 E. F. Phillips and Mr. Geo. S. Demuth are prominent among the instructors. 



Mr. J. C. Bridwell, Bureau of Entomology, who left Washington last December 

 for a study of the bruchid pests of the mesquite and closely related plants in Texas, 

 returned from Brownsville to' Washington during June with considerable parasitized 

 material of Acanthoscelides uniformis and Acanthoscelides sallaei. Six hymenopter- 

 ous parasites of these bruchids have been secured. Mr. Bridwell is at present pre- 

 paring a report upon his work. 



Mr. R. C. Treherne has been appointed Chief of the Division of Field Crop and 

 Garden Insects of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, 

 and will take up his duties at Ottawa in October. Mr. Treherne has been provincial 

 entomologist for British Columbia, and was formerly connected with the central 

 entomological work at Ottawa, when it was organized as a part of the Central Experi- 

 mental Farms. 



Mr. Dwight M. DeLong of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Harrisburg, Pa., has ob- 

 tained a leave of absence and will teach elementary and economic entomology at the 

 Ohio State University the coming year in place of Prof. C. L, Metcalf , who has recent- 

 ly gone to the University of Illinois. Mr. DeLong expects to receive his doctor's 

 degree next spring and plans to return next summer to his work in Pennsylvania. 



Professor M. D. Leonard has resigned as assistant professor of extension entomo- 

 logy at Cornell University to take effect November 1, 1921, to accept a position as field 

 manager for the Bowker Insecticide Co., with headquarters at 49 Chambers St., New 



