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Professor W. C. O'Kane, Durham, N. H., and Harold L. Bailey, Bradford, Vt., 

 were among the entomologists attending the hearing regarding the white pine blister 

 rust, held before the Federal Horticultural Board at Washington, D. C, April 10. 



Mr. William C. Woods will be a member of the summer staff at the Maine Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for the summer of 1917. He will be engaged with 

 "Emergency Entomology" and special work with Chrysomelid beetles. 



Mr. August Busck of the Bureau of Entomology recently visited Mexico, in the 

 region of Monterey, San Pedro and Torreon, where Egyptian cotton has been planted, 

 to study the extent of the pink bollworm infestation. 



Mr. H. M. Parshley of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, has accepted 

 an appointment as assistant professor of Zoology at Smith College, Xorthampton^ 

 Mass., and will begin his duties with the next college year in September. 



Mr. H. J. Reinhard, assistant entomologist of the Texas Station, is completing 

 extensive studies on the artificial control of the cowpea weevil, Bruchus quadrimacu- 

 latiis Fabr. Special attention has been given to heat as a means of control. 



Professor Franklin Sherman, Jr., was appointed to represent the American Ento- 

 mological Society at the inauguration of Wallace Carl Riddick as president of the 

 North CaroUna College of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C, on February 22, 1917. 



Professor Charles T. Brues of Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Mass., Mr. Harold 

 L. Bailey of Bradford, Vt., and Mr. James A. Hyslop of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 stationed at Hagerstown, Md., recently visited the Connecticut Station at New 

 Haven. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, has also recently been 

 appointed consulting zoologist by the Canadian government, and will advise in mat- 

 ters relating to the protection of birds and mammals and the treatment of noxious 

 species. 



Mr. S. C. Clapp, assistant in Entomology, North Carolina State Department of 

 Agriculture for nine years, has been appointed superintendent of the Mountain 

 Station of the Experiment Station and State Department of Agriculture at Swan- 

 nanoa, N. C, and entered on his new duties in February. 



Very interesting but rather unexpected results are being obtained in the exhaustive 

 artificial migration tests with the cotton or melon louse, Aphis gossypii Glov., by 

 F. B. Paddock, state entomologist of Texas. There are two color forms of this species 

 which complicates the migration tests. 



At the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences convened April 16 

 and adjourned April 18, j\Ir. W. V. King, of the Bureau of Entomology-, introduced 

 by Dr. L. 0. Howard, presented a paper entitled, "Sporogony of Malaria Parasites," 

 with photomicrographs of infected Anopheles. 



At the present time beekeeping is taught in the agricultural colleges in twenty-two 

 states. In all but one or two cases this work has been inaugurated within the past 

 five years. In ten of these colleges, the work occupies the exclusive attention of at 

 least one instructor. 



Mr. I. M. Hawley (Ph.D. Cornell) has been appointed assistant in the Division of 

 Entomology, State Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C, and began work in 

 February. He succeeds 'Sir. S. C. Clapp. He will be responsible for much of the 

 inspection work, and will also undertake some investigation projects. 



