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York City. He will endeavor to make tests on the company's farms and in co-oper- 

 ation experiments vnth various growers of such materials as are now, or may be m the 

 future, manufactured by the company. 



The followang men have recently been appointed to positions in the Bureau of 

 Entomology- :-W. W. Porter, Crowley, La.; Roland Cowart, Richard V. Hood, L. R. 

 Lyle, George B. Ray, George L. Smith, W. A. Stevenson, Adolph Thomas, V. V. 

 Williams, scientific assistants, boll weevil laboratory, Tallulah, La. ; Ernest E. Russell, 

 field superintendent in insect control,' Gainesville, Texas; Dr. William Moore, formerly 

 of the L^niversit}' of Minnesota to take charge of insecticide investigations against the 

 Japanese beetle, Riverton, N. J.; W. E. Stone, sweet potato weevil work. 



At the 31st annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science held at Cleveland, 

 March 25-26, 1921, Prof. Raymond C. Osburn was elected President. The following 

 entomological papers appeared on the program; Hemiptera of the Adirondacks; and 

 Collecting in Southern Florida, by Herbert Osborn; Some Studies in Hessian Fly 

 Emergence, by T. H. Parks; Notes on the Habits and Life History of Galeatiis peck- 

 hami Ashm; and A New Ambrosia Beetle; Notes on the Work of Xyloterinus polittis 

 Say, by Carl J. Drake ; Phylogeny and Distribution of the Genus Libellula, by Clarence 

 H. Kennedy; Aids in Teaching Elementary Cytology, by Z. P. Metcalf ; the Cytology 

 of the Seaside Earwig, A7iisolabis,hy S. I. Kornhauser. 



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

 Cotton, from Orlando, Fla., to Washington, D. C, Miss Marion Van Horn from 

 truck crop insect investigations to stored product insect investigations; L. R. Lyle, 

 G. B. Ray, L B. Rutledge, G. L. Smith, W. A. Stevenson, J. V. Vernon, V. V. Williams 

 temporarily from boll weevil force to Federal Horticultural Board; R. W. Wells, 

 Herkimer, N. Y., to Dallas, Texas; S. H. Roundtree, Macclenny, Fla., to Brownsville, 

 Fla; Perez Simmons to insects affecting meats; L. W. Brannon, H. B. Lancaster, 

 D. M. Dowdell, Jr., F. R. White, bean beetle investigations, to plant quarantine 

 inspectors in the same project; G. L. Garrision, Quincy, Fla., to Washington, D. C. 

 Resignations in the Bureau of Entomology are announced as' follows :-J. B. Moor- 

 man, bee-culture investigations to accept a position at Austin College, Sherman, 

 Texas; E. S. Prevost, So. Carolina, and N. L Lyle, Iowa, extension specialists in bee- 

 culture; A. D. Shaftsbur>% bee culture investigations to resume graduate studies in 

 zoology at Johns Hopkins University; Louis R. Schreiner, field assistant, Carlisle, Pa., 

 to complete his studies; F. D. Parnell, W. R. Smith, boll weevil force; J. W. Hendrj^, 

 sweet potato weevil work, Macclenny, Fla; L. M. Prichard, sweet potato weevil work, 

 Gulfport; L. P. Hodges, Alexander G. McCarty, J. N. Crisler, S. N. Boyd, boll weevil 

 force; the following temporary appointments have been terminated; W. R. Heard, 

 J. B. Pope, H. C. Young, Tallulah, La., and Charles Milford, Madison, Fla. 



Mr. J. S. Houser, co-operating with C. N. Nellie, Park Entomologist of Cleveland 

 and the U. S. Aviation Service, of McCook Field, Dayton, August 4, conducted a 

 dusting experiment at Tro\-, Ohio, on a six-acre catalpa grove which was being defoli- 

 ated by the catalpa sphinx. The poison was delivered from an aeroplane and the six 

 acres were dusted in 54 seconds. An examination made six days later, showed 99 per 

 cent, of the caterpillars were killed. It is believed that this method of distributing 

 poison will be found ver>- useful for treatment of large, close planted forest areas for 

 foliage-eating insects such as gipsy moth. It may be useful for treating large orchards 

 of big pecan and walnut trees, but can hardly take the place of liquid spraying in 

 apple and peach orchards. 



