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Bureau of Plant Industn-, a special investigation is being made of Stigmonose of 

 the apple. 



Mr. Boyd L. Boyden, scientific a.ssistant in the Bureau of Entomology, who was 

 formerh- employed at AMiittier, Cal., where he was associated with Messrs. R. S. 

 Woglum and John E. Graf, recently cooperating with the latter in work on wireworms 

 affecting sugar-beet and other crops, will take headquarters at O.xnard, Cal., to 

 £5ontinue investigations on sugar-beet and bean insects. 



Owing to injmy to citrus trees in California by the citrus mealy bug and allied 

 ■species, it is proposed to estabhsh a field station of the Biu^eau of Entomology to 

 investigate these pests and devise means for controlling them. This work will be 

 in charge of INIr. R. S. Woglum, and when he has found a suitable location for the 

 new station, the one at Whittier will be discontinued. 



i\Ir. Arthm- H. Rosenfeld, director and entomologist of the Tucuman Argentina! 

 Agricultural Experiment Station and a foreign member of the American Association 

 of Economic Entomologists, was named Professor of Entomology in the "University 

 of Tucuman b}' government decree last April. Mr. Rosenfeld was also made a 

 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its Atlanta 

 meeting. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trustees, Maryland Agricultural College, 

 Professor T. B. SjTnons, State Entomologist and dean of the School of Horticulture, 

 ■was appointed director of the Extension Division which has recentl}" been formed at 

 the Institution. Professor Symons will, however, continue to direct the entomologi- 

 cal work in the state. IMr. E. X. Cory, associate professor at the same Institution 

 was promoted to Professor of Zoologj'. 



In the Division of Apiculture, Bureau of Entomology, Dr. N. E. Mclndoo went 

 to "Winchester, Va., to cooperate with Mr. E. B. Blakeslee of the Deciduous Fruit 

 Insect Investigations, in a stud}' of the effects on honey bees of spraj-ing fruit trees 

 while in full bloom. To obtain fm'ther data he will go to Winthrop, Me., to the 

 branch laboratory under the direction of Mr. F. L. Simanton, about June 1. Dr. 

 G. F. White, who spent the winter in Ithaca, N. Y., has returned to Washington. 

 ]\Ir. George S. Demuth closed up the work on the wintering of bees in Philadelphia 

 about the end of IMay. 



In response to a demand from grape growers in the Lake Erie "\^aUey, a laboratory 

 lias been re-established bj- the Bureau of Entomologj', at Xorth East, Pa., where 

 further investigations of gi'ape insects and other deciduous fruit insects in general 

 will be made. Especial attention will be given to the gi-ape berry moth, which still 

 continues to be a gi-ape pest of first importance in that general region. Mr. Dwight 

 Isely, of Cornell University, has been employed to look after the general biologic 

 and field work, and Mr. R. A. Cushman has been transferred from the Vienna, Va., 

 laboratory to Xorth East, Pa., and will have charge of the investigations of parasites 

 of the grape berry moth, to which it is proposed to give more attention than has 

 been possible heretofore. Mr. Cushman will also make a study of the apple-seed 

 Chalcis, which, in recent j-ears, has been the cause of considerable complaint from 

 4ipple growers. 



Mailed August 15, 1914. 



