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Bureau of Entomology, and will assist Mr. John B. Gill in pecan insect investiga- 

 tions, with headquarters at Monticello, Fla. 



At the annual convention of the New England Nurserymen's Association, held 

 at Hartford, Conn., February 24 and 25, 1914, the subject of pests and inspection 

 was discussed by Prof. W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H. ; Mr. D. M. Eogers, 

 Boston, Mass.; Dr. G. P. Clinton and Dr. W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn. 



According to Science, Carlos E. Porter, professor of zoology and entomology 

 at the Agricultural Institute of Chile and director of Bevista Chilena de Historia 

 Natural, is vice-president for 1914, of the Sociedad Cientifica de Chile and honorary 

 professor of zoologj^ at the Agricultural College of the University at Manaos, 

 Brazil. 



Mr. Boyd L. Boyden, who pursued a course in biology at Pomona College, Clare- 

 mont, Cal., graduating as B.S. in 1912, has been transferred from work on tropical 

 and sub-tropical insect investigations to the branch of Truck Crop and Stored 

 Product Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, with temporary headquarters at 

 Whittier, Cal. 



Mr. Benjamin E. Leach, a student at Cornell University, has been appointed as 

 scientific assistant in deciduous fruit insect investigations. Bureau of Entomology, 

 and will give special attention to habits, in orchards, of the woolly apple aphis and 

 to experiment with remedies in the control of this insect. Headquarters will 

 probably be Winchester, Va. 



The ninth annual convention of the Tennessee State Horticultural Society, State 

 Nurserymen's Association, and State Beekeeper's Association, was held at Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., January 28, 29 and 30. 1914. Prof. H. A. Morgan gave an address 

 before the Horticultural Society, and Prof. CI. M. Bentley addressed the Nursery- 

 men 's Association, of which he is secretary-treasurer. 



Mr. John E. Dudley, Jr., formerly connected with the Gypsy Moth Parasite Lab- 

 oratory at Melrose Highlands, Mass., has been aj^pointed as scientific assistant in 

 the Bureau of Entomology, and assigned to work under the Insecticide and Fungi- 

 cide Board. He will assist Mr. E. W. Scott in testing the efficacy claims of manu- 

 facturers as regards their insecticides, with headquarters at Vienna, Va. 



At the University of Kansas Mr. P. W. Claassen has been appointed assistant state 

 entomologist on the staff of the state entomologist of the University of Kansas, who 

 is a member of the entomological commission. Mr. H. B. Hungerford has been ad- 

 vanced to the rank of assistant professor. The Board of Educational Administration 

 has recently made a special appropriation of $1,500 per year for the next biennium, 

 to be used by the state entomologist in charge of the southern haK of the state in 

 connection with his investigations on native grasshoppers. They have also granted 

 him $300 additional appropriation for the investigation on pellagra and the sand fly. 



Mailed April 15, 1914 



