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ening its powers in relation to domestic quarantines so that introduced pests of a 

 fairly widespread character, like the blister rust and the alfaKa weevil, can be more 

 effectively controlled. 



Professor Raymond C. Osburn of the Connecticut College for Women, New Lon- 

 don, Connecticut, has been elected head of the Department of Zoology and Entomol- 

 ogy of the Ohio State University, his appointment to take effect July 1. He will 

 assume the duties carried during the last nineteen years by Dr. Herbert Osborn, who 

 was last year elected Research Professor and who will hereafter give his entire time 

 to research work, including the direction of research work by graduate students, and, 

 for the present, the directorship of the Lake Laboratory and of the Ohio Biological 

 Survey. Dr. Osburn graduated from the Ohio State University in 1898, received 

 the master's degree from the same institution in 1900 and the Ph. D. degree from Co- 

 lumbia in 1906. He has been connected as a teacher with the Starhng Medical Col- 

 lege, Columbus, Ohio; Fargo College, Fargo, N. D. ; Clinton High School of Commerce, 

 New York City; Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Connecticut College 

 for Women, in which he is now Professor of Biology. He is perhaps best known to 

 entomologists as the author of a number of papers on Syrphidse and Odonata and as 

 recently President of the New York Entomological Society. While his own investi- 

 gations may deal largely with other forms, especially aquatic gi-oups of invertebrates 

 and fishes, entomologists may feel assured that he will give full support to the entomo- 

 logical work and especially to the lines of applied entomology which have been a 

 prominent part of the work in the Ohio institution. 



The Third Annual Meeting of Entomological Workers of Ohio was held at Ohio 

 State University on February 2, 1917, with thirty members in attendance. The pro- 

 gram consisted of reviews of projects and reports on investigations of members of the 

 Ohio Experiment Station, the State Division of Orchard and Nursery Inspection, and 

 the Department of Entomology of the University. The following program was pre- 

 sented : 



Distribution of Ohio Broods of Periodical Cicada with Reference to Soil. H. A. 

 Gossard. 



General Reports from Heads of Department Organizations: H. A. Gossard, Ohio 

 Experiment Station; N. E. Shaw, State Division of Orchard and Nursery Inspection; 

 Herbert Osborn, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Ohio State University; 

 H. A. Gossard, Review of Projects; J. S. Houser, Review of Projects; W. H. Goodwin, 

 Review of Projects; R. D. Whitmarsh, Review of Projects; D. C. Mote, Review of 

 Projects; J. L. King, Review of Projects; Richard Faxon, Nursery Imports; F. D. 

 Heckathorn, Winter Work in Nurseries and Surroundings; H. E. Evans, An In- 

 spector's Itinerary for a Year; H. J. Speaker, Report of Control of Gipsy Moth Out- 

 break; C. L. MetcaK, Predaceous Insects; C. J. Drake, Notes on Aquatic and 

 Semi-Aquatic Hemiptera of Ohio; Herbert Osborn, Problems with Meadow Insects; 

 T. L. Guyton, Aphididseof Ohio. 



A permanent organization was effected and the following officers elected for 1917- 

 18: N. E. Shaw, Chairman; J. S. Houser, Secretary. 



A special appropriation of $50,000 has been requested in relation to the possible 

 invasion of Texas by the pink bollworm, this money to be expended by the Federal 

 Horticultural Board in cooperation with the Bureau of Entomology in quarantine 

 border control, and control in Texas in particular relation to the various cotton mUls 

 which have received considerable quantities of seed from Mexico for milling purposes 

 during the year. T. C. Barber has been transferred from the branch of Southern 

 Field Crop Insect Investigations to the Federal Horticultural Board and was placed 



