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party to make biological explorations in this swamp in 1912, and who, in company 

 with Prof. J. G. Xeedhom, again \-isited the place in the summer of 1913. Okefenoke 

 Swamp is situated in southeastern Georgia. 



According to Science, "Capt. J. F. Siler of the Medical Corps of the United States 

 Army and Mr. A. H. Jennings of the Bureau of Entomology have recently returned 

 from the West Indies, where, in association with Dr. Louis W. Sambon of the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine, they have been investigating pellagra and other tropical 

 diseases in the interests of the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission of the 

 New York Ppst-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. " 



Mr. W. J. Schoene, formerly associate entomologist of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., has been appointed state entomologist of 

 Virginia and entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Blacksburg. 

 He began his work there September 1, 1913. Mr. W. J. Price, acting state entomo- 

 logist, has been retained as associate and will have charge of nursery and orchard 

 inspection. 



Dr. L. W. Sambon, who sailed from England in August, to investigate pellagra 

 in the West Indies, returned to England in Januarj', after visiting the United 

 States. In the coui-se of his trip he observed many cases of the disease, even 

 where it was not previously known to exist. Dr. Sambon's investigations in South- 

 ern and Eastern Europe lead him to believe that pellagra is 'transmitted through 

 the bite of some insect, probably a fly of the genus Simulium. 



Mr. Arthur 11. Rosenfeld, a foreign member of the American Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists, and entomologist and acting director of the Tucuman Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station in the Argentine RepubUc, has beennamed by the governor of 

 Tucuman to be a member of the board to organize and administer the new university 

 of Tucuman. Mr. Rosenfeld was also appointed a member of the rules committee 

 of the University Board and a member of the Roosevelt reception committee on the 

 occasion of ex-President Roosevelt's visit to that Province. 



D. L. Van Dine resigned as entomologist of the experiment station of the Porto 

 Rico Sugar Producers' Association at the end of the hist fiscal year and returned to 

 this country to re-enter the employ of the Bureau of Entomology at Washington. 

 Mr. Van Dine has been assigned by Doctor Howard to make a study of malaria and 

 the malaria-transmitting mosquitoes under the direction of Mr. W. D. Hunter. The 

 work on malaria will relate particularly to the effect of malaria on agriculture and 

 agricultural development in the South and to the bionomics of the si^ecies of mosqui- 

 toes 'nvolved. Mr. "\'an Dine's address is Bureau of Entomology, Department of 

 Agriculture, ^^'ashington, D. C. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, held at 

 Atlanta, Ga., December 30 and 31, the following ofiicers were elected: president, Dr. 

 Philip P. Calvert; Philadelphia; first vice-president. Prof. James G. Needham, 

 Ithaca, N. Y.; second \ace-president. Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Ottawa, Can.; secretary- 

 treasurer, Prof. Alexander D. IMacGillivray, Urbana, 111.; executive committee, 

 Pliihp P. Calvert, James G. Needham, C. Gordon Hewitt, Alexander D. MacGillivTay, 

 Herbert Osbom, William M. TMieeler, Vernon L. Kellogg, Nathan Banks, E. P. Felt 

 and J. M. Aldrich. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell was reelected a member of the com- 

 mittee on nomenclature, and Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt and Dr. Wilham Barnes were 

 elected fellows of the societj-. 



Mailed February 28, 1914. 



