December, '21] current notes 515 



Mr. Quincy S. Lowry, assistant director, Division of Plant Pest Control, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Boston, Mass., visited New York City and New Haven, 

 Conn., on his vacation during the first week in November. 



The annual convention of the Chicago Northwestern Beekeepers Association has 

 been scheduled for December 5 and 6, at room 1811, Hotel La Salle, Chicago. Mr. 

 John C. Bull, Valparaiso, Ind., is the Secretary. 



Mr. W. O. HoUister, of the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery, Kent, Ohio, is Presi- 

 dent of the local Chamber of Commerce and has recently been elected mayor of the 

 City of Kent. He takes his office January 1, 1922. 



Mr. R. C. Treherne of the Vernon, B. C, Laboratory, has recently been appointed 

 Chief of the Division of Field Crops and Garden Insects, Entomological Branch, 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture, and took up his new duties in Ottawa, 

 October 6. 



The Alabama Beekeepers Association held its annual meeting at Montgomery on 

 September 22. Steps were taken to secure a foul brood law at the forthcoming 

 session of the legislature. It is stated that more bees and queens are reared within 

 150 miles of Montgomery than in any other equal section of the United States. 



The following temporary' officers resigned during October from the Entomological 

 Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture: G. M. McFarlane, junior entomolo- 

 gist. Saskatoon laboratory; Geo. Makinson, inspector. Nova Scotia; H. H. Thomas 

 junior entomologist, British Columbia; A. H. McAndrews, spruce bud worm investi- 

 gator, New Brunswick. 



The following employees of the Bureau of Entomology have resigned to return 

 to their studies in college: R. H. Turner and W. P. Whitlock, field assistants, 

 Mexican bean beetle control; Bernard Smit, bean weevil investigations, Alhambra, 

 Calif., to resume graduate work at Cornell University. 



The following recent transfers in the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture have been announced: L. W. Brannon, D. M. Dowdell, Jr., H. B. 

 Lancaster, F. R. White, temporary field assistants, Mexican bean beetle work, to 

 plant quarantine inspectors, truck-crop insect investigations; M. H. Atwood, F. I. 

 Jeffrey, E. G. Small, temporar>^ field assistants, Mexican bean beetle work, to plant 

 quarantine inspectors, Federal Horticultural Board; F. P. Bickley, Mexican bean 

 beetle work to scientific assistant; E. R. Van Leeuwen, codling moth work at Cornelia, 

 Ga., to camphor scale control, New Orleans, La.; A. J. Ackerman, Sacramento, 

 Calif., to Bentonville, Ark., in charge of laboratory for apple insect investigations. 



A conference was held on November i8, at io:oo A. M., in the State House, Boston, 

 Mass., to consider the gipsy moth situation, particularly the recent spread, the 

 Federal and State appropriations and the outlining of a definite policy of carrying 

 on the work for the coming season. This conference was called by Mr. William 

 A. L. Bazeley, Commissioner of Conservation and State Forester of Massachusetts, 

 and the conference was held in his office. The following were present: Prof. 

 W. C. O'Kane, W. A. Osgood, New Hampshire; Harold L. Bailey, Vermont; W. A. L. 



