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Subscriptions are being received from the employees of the U. S. Department o* 

 Agriculture for a fund of $1,450 to be used in donating a fully equipped Red Cross 

 ambulance for use in Europe. This gives a very definite means for aiding in the 

 important work of the Red Cross. The ambulance will be known officially as the 

 United States Department of Agriculture Ambulance. Subscriptions should he 

 sent to Mrs. H. S. Bishop of the Bureau of Entomology. 



The following have recently been appointed to the Bureau of Entomology: E. L. 

 Sechrist, Fairoaks, Calif., Assistant in Apiculture, Drummond, Va.; G. N. Wolcott, 

 special field assistant, sugar cane insects, Louisiana and Texas ; Torbert Stack, Tallu- 

 lah. La., K. B. McKinney, A. D. Bosley and F. G. Sorrells, Clarksville, Tenn., tempo- 

 rary field assistants; H. J. Hart, Falls City, Neb.; Dr. Burton N. Gates, Amhers". 

 Mass., and G. A. Gale, College Park, Md., Collaborators; Miss M. A. MacNab, 

 Clerk, FaUs Church, Va. 



Prof. A. C. Burrill resigned last summer from the position of Assistant Entomolo- 

 gist of the Wisconsin Experiment Station and Instructor in Economic Entomology 

 in the Agricultural College to become Entomologist of the Idaho Experiment Station 

 and Assistant Professor in the Zoology and Entomology Department of the Lt^niver- 

 sity of Idaho. This summer Professor Burrill is in charge of the new substation for 

 entomological work, especially clover aphis, at Twin Falls, Idaho, the heart of the 

 irrigated empire of the Snake River plains. 



The following were visitors to the Bureau of Entomology during May: Dr. Burton 

 N. Gates, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.; A. F. Burgess, In 

 Charge of Moth Work, Mekose Highlands, Mass.; W. M. Mann, of Bussey Institu- 

 tion, Forest Hills, Mass.; Fred Muir, Assistant Entomologist of the Hawaiian Sugar 

 Planters' Experiment Station, Honolulu, Hawaii; D. M. Rogers, Gipsy Moth In- 

 vestigations, Boston, Mass.; W. F. Fiske, late of the Bureau of Entomology, who has 

 recently returned from the British service in Africa. 



Charles Fuller Baker, A. M., Professor of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Uni- 

 versity of the Philippines (stationed at Los Banos, PhiUppine Islands), announces 

 that he is taking a year's leave of absence, and that for this year he has accepted, 

 under temporary appointment, the post of Assistant Director of the Botanical Gar- 

 dens at Singapore, in charge of experimental work in Tropical Agronomy. After 

 May 12, 1917, and until further notice, all correspondence should be addressed to 

 him, care of Botanical Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements. 



August Busck, of the Bureau of Entomology, has returned from his trip to Mexico 

 where he made a careful examination of cotton fields on both sides of the Mexican 

 border in the Brownsville-Matamoros region without finding any evidence of the 

 pink bollworm. Neither was any evidence of infestation found in the district oppo- 

 site Eagle Pass, Tex., but two Mexican plantations near the United States were found 

 on which considerable areas of cotton had been planted with seeds imported from 

 the Laguna district. There is every reason to anticipate, therefore, that in these 

 fields the pink bollworm will develop this year. A very strict watch must be main- 

 tained, and whatever remedial steps are possible will be undertaken in cooperation 

 with the Mexican authorities. 



Mailed August 20, 1917. 



