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Mr. F. W. Uricli lias been appointed entomologist to the board of agri- 

 culture, Trinidad, British West Indies. Address, care of Board of Agri- 

 culture. 



Mr. C. C. Gowdey, who was graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College in 1908, has been appointed government entomologist to Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate in Northern Nigeria, British East Africa. 



Mr. F. W. Lowe has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology to accept a 

 position with the Parke Davis Company, Detroit, Michigan. 



Mr. C. B. Hardenberg, who has spent several months in Denmark, has re- 

 turned to this country and is carrying on investigations on cranberry insects 

 in Wisconsin for the Bureau of Entomology. 



Mr. D. L. VanDine, who was entomologist to the Hawaiian Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, has been transferred to the Bureau of Entomology. He will 

 w^ork on insects affecting sugar cane and southern field crops. Address, 

 Dallas, Texas. 



Prof. Trevor Kincaid of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 

 will sail for Europe in April. During the summer he will make extensive col- 

 lections of the parasites of the gypsy moth in Russia and the material will 

 be shipped to the Gypsy Moth Laboratory at Melrose. Highlands, Mass. 

 The investigation is being conducted under the direction of Dr. L. O. Howard. 



The Ottawa Field Naturalist Club is receiving subscriptions for a perma- 

 nent memorial which it proposes to erect in honor of the late Dr. James 

 Fletcher. Suggestions as to the form of the memorial are as follows : 

 a — A fountain at the Central Experimental Farm ; 6 — a statue to be placed in 

 the grounds of the new Natural History Museum ; c — a bust or portrait to 

 be placed in that building or at the Central Experimental Farm ; d — To 

 found a bursary at some Canadian university. No decision can be reached 

 until the approximate amount of money available is known. Subscriptions 

 may be sent to E. R. Cameron, Chairman, or W. Hague Harrington, Secre- 

 tary, Ottawa, Canada. 



Mailed April 15, 1909. 



