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Melrose Highlands, near the laboratory. The Inspection and Quarantine Service 

 still continues its office at the Boston address. 



Professor W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H., recently published a new book, entitled, 

 "Jim and Peggy at Meadowbrook Farm." Its purpose is to convey to city children 

 a picture of everyday farm Ufe; it is profusely illustrated with New Hampshire scenes, 

 and is pubUshed by the Macmillan Company. 



Mr. Edmund Baynes Reed, one, of the pioneer entomologists of Canada, died at Vic- 

 toria, B.C., November 18, 1916, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. Mr. Reed was 

 interested in both systematic and economic entomology, and was one of the original 

 members of the Entomological Society of Ontario when it started in 1863. 



Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, attended the following meetings during 

 the months of January and February: Kentucky State Beekeepers' Association, 

 Lexington, Ky., January 4; North CaroUna Beekeepers' Association, Winston- 

 Salem, N. C, January 11; Colorado Beekeepers' Association, Fort Collins, Col., 

 January 18 and 19; National Beekeepers' Association, Madison, Wis., February 6-8. 



The following transfers have been made in the Bureau of Entomology: D. A. H. 

 McCray, from Bee Culture to Insects Affecting the Health of Man, to be established 

 at New Orleans, La.; T. C. Barber, from Southern Field Crop Investigations to the 

 Federal Horticultural Board, to be stationed at San Antonio, Tex.; W. H. Larrimer, 

 Charleston, Mo., to West Lafayette, Ind.; Julian J. Culver, Gipsy Moth Laboratory, 

 to Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations, stationed at Fort VaUey, Ga. 



Dr. L. O. Howard left Washington on the fifth of February, and visited the field 

 station at Orlando, studying with Mr. W. W. Yothers the effects of the freeze of 

 February 3 on the orange crop and the orange trees and on the insects of the orange. 

 He also consulted with Mr. J. E. Graf, who has established a station at Plant City; 

 and later visited Thomasville, Ga., where Mr. George D. Smith is studying cotton 

 insects, stopping at Atlanta on his return to Washington for consultation with Mr. 

 E. L. Worsham concerning cooperative work in Georgia. 



The completion of the Carnegie Institution "Monograph of the Mosquitoes of North 

 and Central America and the West Indies" is in sight! The final proofs, including 

 the index to the last volume, have been read, and the Institution believes that the 

 final volume will be ready for distribution about April 15. It is of interest to note that 

 the indices to Volumes 3 and 4 are combined in Volume 4, Volume 3 carrying no index. 

 The pagination of Volumes 3 and 4 is continuous. 



The Federal Horticultural Board has had a thorough survey made by its California 

 collaborators, under the direction of Mr. Maskew, of the department's introduction 

 gardens at Chico, Cal. This survey is an annual function and precedes the shipment 

 of plant material from this garden. A similar survey is in progress in relation to the 

 introduction gardens in Florida, notably the garden at Miami, and involves inspection 

 of plants both for insect pests and fungous diseases. Various entomological and path- 

 ological experts of the Board, including members of the Board, were in attendance 

 during the month of January at important conferences in New York over quarantine 

 matters, particularly in relation to the blister rust, in connection with the entomolog- 

 ical and pathological meetings held in that city, and with the International Forestry 

 Congress held at Washington. At the latter Congress the chairman of the Board pre- 

 sented an address on the subject of losses occasioned by introduced insect pests and 

 plant diseases. As a result of these conferences and of the needs of the plant quar- 

 antine service, an effort will be made to amend the Plant Quarantine Act, broad- 



