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Mr. A. B. Duckett, Bureau of Entomology, has returned from a trip to New York 

 and vicinity where he has been engaged in a prehminary investigation of the so- 

 called "Argentine weevil." 



Mr. E. Firmstone Heath, of The Hermitage, Cartwright, Manitoba, Can., died 

 May 14, 1914, aged seveuty-four years. Mr. Heath was a collector of insects, 

 especially lepidoptera, and a frequent contributor to the Canadian Entomologist. 



Mr. Russel Ferguson, assistant to the superintendent of moth work in Maine, 

 with several assistants, is collecting parasites of the gipsy moth and the brown-tail 

 moth for colonization in that state. 



The following new men have been temporarily engaged by the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology for work on the malarial survey at Mound, La. Ed. Foster, J. K. Thibault, 

 Jr., W. W. Kimball and F. H. O'Neil. 



Mr. D. E. Fink, Bureau of Entomology, has been engaged for some time on a new 

 project — the fumigation of insects affecting stored products by means of ammonia 

 gas. Considerable progress has been made. 



Mr. Detmar W. Jones, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 has been appointed scientific assistant, Bureau of Entomology, and assigned to 

 parasite investigations at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



Mr. E. O. Essig, Secretary of the State Horticultural Commission of California 

 and Editor of the Monthly Bulldin, has resigned to accept a position in the entomo- 

 logical department at the University of California at Berkeley. 



Mr. H. K. Laramore has been appointed field assistant. Bureau of Entomology, 

 to work with Mr. High at Knox, Ind., in investigations of the onion thrips and other 

 insects affecting onions and other vegetable and truck crops. 



Mr. Leroy Childs, who for the past year has been assistant secretary of the Cali- 

 fornia State Commission of Horticulture, has accepted a position as research assistant 

 in entomology, at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, Corvallis, Ore. 



Mr. V. L Safro, formerly assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, who recently 

 resigned as assistant at the Oregon Agricultural College and Station, has been engaged 

 as entomologist by the Kentucky Tobacco Product Company, Louisville, Ky. 



Mr. H. B. Kirk, of the Bureau of Entomology, has recently accepted a position 

 at the Laboratory of Economic Zoology, Harris burg, Pa., where he will have charge 

 of the photographic work and the breeding work of the insectary. 



During the first week in June, Mr. A. F. Burgess visited the sections of New Bruns- 

 wick and Nova Scotia which are known to be infested with the brown-tail moth, as 

 the guest of Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist. 



Mr. A. P. Sandles, Chairman of the Agricultural Commission of Ohio and Mr. 

 N. E. Shaw, State Nursery Inspector of Ohio, spent several days in June investi- 

 gating gipsj' moth and brown-tail moth conditions in the infested area in New 

 England. 



Mr. Frank B. Herbert, of the University of California, has been appointed Ento- 

 mological Ranger, Bureau of Entomology, to take effect November 1, and assigned 

 to duty at the Pacific Slope Field Station at Placerville, California, under H. E. 

 Burke, in charge. 



