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Mr. H. H. Lyman and his wife, of Montreal, we are informed, were passengers 

 on the ill-fated Empress of Ireland and it is feared that they were among the lost. 



Mr. M. P. Zappe, a graduate of the Connecticut Agricultural College, will be 

 employed during the summer as assistant in the entomological department of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven. 



Mr. Thomas H. Jones, Collaborator of the Bureau of Entomology, stationed at 

 Rio PiedraSj Porto Rico, has been visiting Washington for study and perusal of liter- 

 ature, and the identification of specimens. 



Mr. L. S. McLaine, who has charge of the brown-tail moth work in the Province 

 of New Brunswick, Canada, will be stationed at the Parasite Laboratory, Melrose 

 Highlands, Mass., for the next four months. 



Mr. Don Whelan, a graduate student of the Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 has received a fellowship in the Graduate School of Ohio University, where he will 

 continue his work in entomology. 



The allowance made to the Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, for all purposes, salaries and running expenses from February 16, 

 1914, to February 15, 1915, is $11,633.07. 



Mr. Herman H. Brehme has resigned as mosquito drainage inspector, Agricultural 

 E.xperiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J., and is now manager of the New Jersey 

 Entomological Company of Newark, N. J. 



Messrs. H. G. Ingerson and H. K. Plank, graduates of the Pennsylvania State 

 College, have been appointed as scientific assistants in the Bureau of Entomology, 

 their work beginning April 18, 1914. 



Mr. B. R. Coad, of the Bureau of Entomology, left Washington on April 1. for 

 Arizona, where he will remain during the season to study the relations between 

 Thurberia insects and cotton culture. His address will be Tucson, Ariz. 



Mr. C. C. Hamilton, a graduate student assistant of the Department of Ento- 

 mology, Kansas State Agricultural College, has received a fellowship in the Gradu- 

 ate School of the University of Illinois, where he will continue his work in entomology. 



Mr. Ralph R. Parker, 1912, Massachusetts Agricultural College, and a graduate 

 student there, has accepted for the summer, an appointment in Montana to investi- 

 gate conditions in connection with the house fly and its relation to the spread of dis- 

 eases. 



Mr. G. N. Wolcott, of the Porto Rican Board of Agriculture, visited Washington, 

 D. C, March 27. lie will spend the spring months in Illinois collecting Lachnosternn 

 parasites for introduction into Porto Rico. He will spend the summer in Europe 

 on leave. 



Messrs. Arthur J. Ackerman and Daniel G. Tower have finished their work for 

 the degree of Master of Science at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and are 

 now engaged in inspecting nursery stock for the State Board of Agriculture, with 

 headquarters at Boston. 



