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Mr. L. S. McLaine, assistant to Dr. C Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist of 

 Canada, is stationed at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory for the summer. Mr. McL.-.ine 

 and three assistants are collecting parasites and natural enemies of the gipsy moth 

 and the brown-tail moth for shipment to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick where an 

 attempt will be made to colonize these species. 



Dr. Henry H. Severin, who has been testing the poisoned bait spray to control the 

 Mediterranean fruit fly and melon fly in the Hawaiian Islands, and the imported 

 onion fly in Wisconsin, has accepted a temporary position with the Maine Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station to test out similar control measures against the currant 

 or gooseberry fruit fly and the apple maggot or railroad worm. 



The Review of Applied Entomology announces that in consequence of the state of 

 war prevailing in Europe the July number of both series has not been dispatched and 

 will not be dispatched to the United States until the British Post office is willing to 

 accept them as free from risk. It has a large amount of material still in the oflfice 

 and continues to receive matter from the United States and there is no intention of 

 suspending publication. 



Beginning with the fiscal year 1915, a new project was undertaken by the Bureau 

 of Entomology, namely, an investigation of the insects injurious to deciduous nursery 

 stock, with especial reference to developing remedies and apparatus suitable for 

 insect control under nursery growing conditions. Mr. A. J. Ackerman, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, has been employed and assigned to this work, with 

 headquarters for the present at West Chester, Pa. 



Mr. E. R. Speyer of England, recently lecturer in economic entomology, and 

 research officer in the diseases of trees to the Delegacy for Forestry at Oxford Univer- 

 sity, has been in the United States as a Carnegie scholar for the purpose of studying 

 the larger problems in economic entomology, and particularly to study in the field 

 with Dr. A. D. Hopkins the methods of controlling the Scolytida>. Mr. Speyer has 

 been appointed by the Ceylon Government to investigate the shot hole borer of tea 

 in Ceylon. 



Mr. Harrison E. Smith is engaged in work for the Branch of Cereal and Forage 

 Crop Insect Investigations for the Bureau of Entomology and is located for the sum- 

 mer at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Mekose Highlands, Mass. Mr. Smith is col- 

 lecting Calosoma sycophanta and Compsilura concinnata, two imported natural 

 enemies of the gipsy moth that have become well established in New England, and 

 shipping large numbers of these species to New Mexico where an attempt will be 

 made to colonize them as enemies of the range caterpillar. 



The office, laboratories and apiary of the investigations in bee culture of the 

 Bureau of Entomology have recently been moved to Drummond, Md., where con- 

 venient quarters have been obtained in a residence of ten rooms, well adapted to 

 office and laboratory uses. The lot contains about three fourths of an acre, well 

 suited for an apiary. In the cellar will be continued the work on wintering bees, 

 formerly carried on at the zoloogical laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 For tlie present the bacterial work in apiculture will remain at the insectary of the 

 Bureau. The new laboratory may be reached via the Wisconsin Avenue trolley 

 line. 



Mailed October 21, 1914. 



